DRE (Defect Removal Efficiency )

DRE is a measure to detect defects before

delivery. It is calculated as a percentage of the
defects identified and corrected internally with
respect to the total defects in the complete
project life cycle.

Thus, DRE is the percentage of bugs

eliminated by reviews, inspections, tests etc.
 DRE (Defect Removal Efficiency )

• Every year companies around the world spend

vast sums of money testing software, yet
many have no idea of the effectiveness of this
effort. Some use flawed metrics, while others
find the measurement problems too hard to
even attempt.
 DRE (Defect Removal Efficiency )
The increasing emphasis on quality software
has prompted the need for better software
quality management using data driven and
statistical methods. Various measures of
development and released software quality
have been created to make the process
measurable, repeatable, and continuously
improving.
 DRE (Defect Removal Efficiency )
Defect Removal Efficiency (DRE) is one of the
commonly used metrics for measuring the
efficiency of defect removal at various stages of the
software development life cycle. By
extrapolating the DRE metric to released products,
an organization can measure the
effectiveness of their quality assurance process
based on the number of defects found in the product
before and after its release.
 DRE (Defect Removal Efficiency )

The classic Defect Removal Efficiency (DRE)

calculation has been successfully used to
determine the efficiency of the defect removal
process at various stages of the product
development life cycle
 DRE (Defect Removal Efficiency )

DRE(1) is calculated as follows:

DRE = Defects Identified during Dev. Phase

* 100
Defects Identified after Dev. Phase
The value of the DRE is a percentage. The higher the
percentage, the better efficiency is because it
represents the timely identification and removal of
defects at any particular
phase.
 DRE (Defect Removal Efficiency )

This calculation can be extended for released

products as a measure of the number of
defects in the product that were not caught
during the product development or testing
phase.
Hence, the DRE calculation ( 1 ) can be
modified for released products to calculate the
Testing Defect Removal Efficiency (TDRE).
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Presentation
By
Momin Ansari