Bug Escape Rate Importance and how to Detect it? - rayparker56/softwaretesting GitHub Wiki

Every single firm that is operating under the domain of software development is facing a hard time to satisfy its end-users hunger for the best quality products along with something new and unique in the feature set. Many organizations implement the use of agile and DevOps methods to make the software development process faster. However, in actual it is a bit messy and challenging task. Many of the software glitches and defects are waiting to haunt you. And if these defects are suspected in the production then things can go even worse and out of control. One of the best ways to track defects is by implementing the use of defect tracking tools that well aligns your business requirements.

Why bug escape rate is important?

One of the best ways to constantly monitor the overall quality of software releases that your developing team is doing is by tracking the number of defects that make it to the production environment. If too many issues or glitches are detected in the production environment then for sure you have to accept that your testing efforts either manual or automated are not good enough or are lacking something. That is why tracking your defect escape rate is important because it’s a nice way of knowing whether you’re moving too fast or too slow. Moreover, Your defect escape rate is a great constant feedback loop to how your team is doing.

How can you track your defect escape rate? If you want to track your bug escape rate then you definitely have to track maximum defects in your software. One of the best techniques to track defect escape rates is to mark each defect when creating a work item to know where the defect was found. Track whether it is found in quality assurance, stage, production, etc. Find its location by tracking, and then you can create reports that need to track defect escape rates.

The defect escape rate is expressed as a percentage and depends on how many defects you find before putting them into production or how many defects you put into production. But this does not mean that the defect escape rate will be the same as always because every software project is different, but it is suggested to detect 90% of all defects before putting them into production. By constantly paying attention to this indicator, it will help bring software quality into the work of the entire development team.

How to improve defect escape rate?

Some of the best ways to improve your defect escape rate are as under;

• Start detecting bugs from the early stages of SDLC like writing codes
• Documentation of test strategy against every single work item
• Detect defects before they get into production