{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Vernon Richard Show","title":"Measuring Software Testing When The Labels Don’t Fit","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/f68dd8a7\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3615,"description":"This episode is about the struggle to explain, measure, and name the work testers and quality advocates actually do — especially when traditional labels and metrics fall short.\nLinks to stuff we mentioned during the pod:\n05:05 - Defect Detection Rate (DDR)The rate at which bugs are detected per test case (automated or manual)\nNo. of defects found by test team / No. of Test Cases executed) *100\n15:06 - David Evans' LinkedIn\n24:57 - Janet GregoryJanet's website\nJanet's LinkedIn\n26:01 - Defect Prevention RatePerplexity search results here\n28:28 - Jerry WeinbergJerry's Wikipedia page (his books are highly recommended)\n49:33 - Shift-Left: The concept of moving testing activities earlier in the software development lifecycyle.\nSome resources explaining the Shift-Left concept (Perplexity link)\n\n00:00 - Intro\n01:11 - Welcome & \"woke\" testing 😳\n03:15 - QA, QE, Testing… whatever we call it, how do we measure if we're doing a good job?\n03:44 - Vernon’s first experience with testing metrics: more = better?\n05:00 - Defect Detection Rate enters the chat\n06:41 - Rich reverse engineers quality skills needed in the AI era\n10:54 - How do we know if we’re doing any of this well?\n12:40 - Trigger warning: the topic of coverage is incoming 😅\n16:54 - Bugs in production\n21:09 - Automation metrics: flakiness, pass rates, and execution time\n24:29 - Can you measure something that didn’t happen? (Prevention metrics)\n27:43 - Do DORA metrics actually measure prevention?\n32:03 - Here comes Jerry!\n33:50 - The one metric the business cares about...\n36:23 - QA vs QE: whose “quality” are we \"assuring\"?\n39:25 - What's the story behind the numbers?\n48:29 - Rich brings in Shift Left Testing\n50:14 - Metrics that reach beyond engineering\n53:14 - Rich gets a new perspective on QE and the business\n56:50 - Who does this work? Testers? QEs? Or someone else?","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UFGkkh_jsZubLbpE6txGLPU3-7iIlh6gJ0JsseFDEm0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iM2Zk/NGQ3NDk4NmVkNjA5/OGJmMzA0ODQxMWIy/N2ExOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}