The Quality Barometer

[magazine]
A post-release metric for QA managers
Volume-Issue: 
2000-06
Article Summary: 

A QA manager is often faced with measuring the impossible. Here is a simple, post-ship metric to help judge the test effort's effectiveness. The Quality Barometer method uses the bug counts found during testing, calculates a percentage, and then uses that percentage as the defect target number that can be tolerated after shipment.