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Measuring Goals for DevOps Test Succcess

Each organization will have to define what their quality goals are for integrated testing based on the business and customer requirements for speed and outcomes.  The fact is that these goals must be quantified or in other words measurable. If you are not measuring your testing activities in alignment with the strategic goals then success becomes subjective and it will be very difficult to show value for your effort. Some examples of measurements might be in the form of Run-To-Plan and Pass-To-Plan. Run-To-Plan (RTP) is the number of the total planned tests that have completed and typical goals are to have 95% RTP Pass-TopPlan is the number of tests that have passed and a typical goal for this metric is to have a 90% PTP The criteria for determining when testing is complete is agreed by all stakeholders.   It will be impossible to have all stakeholders on the sprint team, but certainly input and validation from key stakeholders will have to be included before acceptanc