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Why are software quality metrics important?

Developers and company managers always worry about their final project’s
quality. Software metrics help in measuring the software quality, also depicting
the software quality and providing a satisfaction that the software is of a
particular quality.
The software quality metrics help in taking decisions, productivity of team and
team members, setting priorities and progress of the project, quality
assurance. Software metrics help in project managers in project management.

The different attributes of software quality are


Reliability. By analysing the number of defects, you will see how well the
software will work and how long the system will run smoothly without
crashing. If you want to have a robust codebase, a low defect count is
especially important.

Maintainability. Is it difficult to maintain your software? Let’s find it out using


the structure, size, complexity, and consistency metrics that analyse the
codebase. It is also important to check the testability and understandability.

Testability. How well does the product support the testing? It depends on how
well you control, automate, isolate, and observe the testing process.

Portability. It shows if you can use the software in various environments. There
are no tools that can show the project’s portability, but there are some means
to do it. The best option is to test the code on various platforms without
waiting until the end of the development.

Reusability. To check if you can use the assets such as code again, use metrics
that measure the number of interdependencies. The reusability depends on
the availability of the modularity or loose coupling.
Production metrics
This metric estimates the amount of work that the developers have already
performed, their productivity, and speed. It can be checked by the active days,
failures and repair time, productivity, task scopes, and other factors.

Active days. This is the time the developers spend on coding. It does not
include any other type of minor activities, such as planning. This metric helps
to identify the hidden costs.

Failure and repair time. When developing a product from scratch, you can
never avoid mistakes and bugs. That’s why all you can do is note the time the
engineers spend on solving the problem.

Productivity. It is difficult to accurately measure this aspect, but each


developer’s code volume can be used as a reference.

Task scopes. This is the volume of code that a developer can produce every
year. Seems weird, but it helps to calculate how many engineers you will need
for a project.

Code churn. This is the volume of the code that has been modified in the
product.

Size-oriented measurements
Such a metric uses the quantifier KLOC (abbreviation for kilo) to calculate the
size of the code and determine bugs, errors, and costs per 1000 lines. It helps
to measure the app’s quality according to its size and code accuracy.

Function-oriented methods
This metric shows how much business functionality you can get from the
product. It stands for the main quantifier and analyses all the available
information such as user input and requests, reports, messages on the errors,
and user requests.

Defect metrics
The amount of defects is the number one indicator of the software’s quality. It
includes:

Stages when the defects arise


The number of defect reports
The time needed to identify and eliminate defects
The defect number per code line (density)

Managing software quality


So how to manage the software quality? It depends not only on the metric’s
efficiency but also on the developers. You should choose professionals who
know exactly what they are doing. Let’s see some aspects that the engineers
should take into account:

Coding standard. One of the best ways to provide a high-quality product is to


use the coding standard. It guarantees that each team member is doing the job
right and leads to the code’s consistency and readability. Having a standard
makes the project easier to use and improves software quality.

Analyze the code. Experienced specialists know it is easier to prevent issues


than deal with them after release. Quality should be the number one priority
during the whole development process. The sooner you determine the errors,
the faster, easier, and cheaper it is to fix them. That’s why professional
engineers analyze the code right away.
Use the latest technologies. It is better not to rely only on the developers but
also to use the metrics listed above. A manual code check is still useful but not
that efficient. Let the software development quality metrics be automated.

Refactoring. If it comes to improving an already existing and outdated product,


use refactoring. It helps to clean up the codebase and make it much easier to
use. The best way is to do it gradually.

Reference : https://diceus.com/top-7-software-quality-metrics-matter/
https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/what-software-quality-really-is-and-the-metri
cs-you-can-use-to-measure-it/

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