http://thediscoblog.com/2006/02/04/can-you-dig-it/ Can you dig it man? Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:36:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://thediscoblog.com/2006/02/04/can-you-dig-it/#comment-1775 The Disco Blog » Making metrics work Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:05:49 +0000 http://thediscoblog.com/?p=3#comment-1775 [...] A metric, in and of itself, is not very useful– for example, code coverage is simply a number that, in isolation, doesn’t mean anything. Highly covered code is still susceptible to defects! Coverage also is not an indication of test quality, by the way. Coverage is simply a measure of test execution– what’s important is how the coverage values are utilized and compared against other hip metrics or trends. [...] [...] A metric, in and of itself, is not very useful– for example, code coverage is simply a number that, in isolation, doesn’t mean anything. Highly covered code is still susceptible to defects! Coverage also is not an indication of test quality, by the way. Coverage is simply a measure of test execution– what’s important is how the coverage values are utilized and compared against other hip metrics or trends. [...]

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