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QA leaders urged to ditch vanity metrics for outcome-based quality signals

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Many software quality assurance teams rely on vanity metrics like test coverage and automation rates, which can create a false sense of security. These metrics measure activity rather than actual software safety or business impact. QA leaders should instead focus on outcome-oriented metrics such as escaped defects, critical journey coverage gaps, defect trends, and business-facing signals like downtime risk to provide leadership with genuine insights into release readiness and product quality. AI

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QA leaders urged to ditch vanity metrics for outcome-based quality signals

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