Topic: How Many Bugs are Acceptable?

Message

   I work as a
software tester and I send this question here just in case any
experienced colleague can give me a short opinion based in his
experience, about a simple (but serious) problem I'm experiencing in my
company.

In my current company we testers experience a classical
problem in our job: too many defects are found in system test (it seems
that development doesn't test at all)

To give you an idea: I
have been working as a tester over the last 8 years, and by comparing
with my previous projects, I expected to have found here around 3000
bugs in a year (7 testers are loading bugs in defect tracking system).
We have found more than 10.000 in that lapse of time. As I told my
bosses, this is not an equilibrated situation, and the QA of the
products is permanently in risk. Quality should be improved from dev
also, not just by recruiting more testers as they are doing now.

Bosses
reply that they might agree but - and here comes my problem - that I
have to measure the problem, provide statistics, comparisons etc. 

So,
does any of you know about any resource (book, webpage, tables, graphs,
etc from acknowledge institution) which measures how many bugs are
accepted in system test (some sort of tables by comparing as example
number of bugs found in terms of lines of code ) We develope in C# and
java.

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Vivash Newbie Joined: 30Apr2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1	Topic: How Many Bugs are Acceptable? Posted: 30Apr2007 at 5:49am
	I work as a software tester and I send this question here just in case any experienced colleague can give me a short opinion based in his experience, about a simple (but serious) problem I'm experiencing in my company. In my current company we testers experience a classical problem in our job: too many defects are found in system test (it seems that development doesn't test at all) To give you an idea: I have been working as a tester over the last 8 years, and by comparing with my previous projects, I expected to have found here around 3000 bugs in a year (7 testers are loading bugs in defect tracking system). We have found more than 10.000 in that lapse of time. As I told my bosses, this is not an equilibrated situation, and the QA of the products is permanently in risk. Quality should be improved from dev also, not just by recruiting more testers as they are doing now. Bosses reply that they might agree but - and here comes my problem - that I have to measure the problem, provide statistics, comparisons etc. So, does any of you know about any resource (book, webpage, tables, graphs, etc from acknowledge institution) which measures how many bugs are accepted in system test (some sort of tables by comparing as example number of bugs found in terms of lines of code ) We develope in C# and java. Post Resume: Click here to Upload your Resume & Apply for Jobs

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jimmy_1310 Newbie Joined: 07Jun2007 Location: India Online Status: Offline Posts: 1	Posted: 07Jun2007 at 3:03am
	We cannot measure bug in Quantity.How many bug are acceptable is depend on the project & risk associated with project. so i think first u have to calculate risk associated with project then u can go for further analysis
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