What are the different software testing metrics in automation projects?

Testing Metrics are used to measure the quality of the software product. In automation testing projects involving tools like QTP, Selenium, Rational Robot etc, We can have below kinds of metrics.

We can categorize the metrics in below parts.

1. Test Progress
2. Test Coverage
3. Test Quality

Automation Metrics to measure the progress of automation.

1. Test Cases Automated per Day.
2. Test Cases Executed per Day.
3. Test Cases Failure Rate.
4. Test Cases Pass Rate.
5. Average Execution time per test case.
6. Total execution time required to execute all test cases.

Automation Metrics to measure the Coverage.

1. % of test Cases that can be automated from all test cases.
2. % of total test cases automated till now from all test cases that can be automated(Progress).
3. Requirements/Test Cases Coverage.

Automation Metrics to measure the quality of product.

1. Test Effectiveness - How many good defects uncovered by automation.
2. No of Defects  Found by Automation.
3. ROI

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