what are test metrics?

Answer Posted / sudhakar8

While testing a product, test manager has to take a lot of
decisions like when to stop testing or when is the
application ready for production, how to track testing
progress, how to measure the quality of a product at a
certain point in the testing cycle? Testing metrics can
help to take better and accurate decisions

Lets start by defining the term 'Metric'
A metric is a mathematical number that shows a relationship
between two variables. Software metrics are measures used
to quantify status or results.

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