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Ask HN: Bug Fixing Metrics?

1 points by siavosh ↗ HN
Curious if there are any good metric formulas that align a team well for fixing bugs (reducing total count) while not penalizing them for the reporting of 'old' bugs in a system. Looking to track a number for the health of the system and the performance of a team.

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taxcoder
I'm US based, so any formulas I come up with tend to be in Imperial, not metric.

Bad jokes aside, do you want bugs committed before a set date to be ignored in the calculation, or receive a lower weight?

siavosh
So for example, every bug before today considered 'old', with any new bug after being 'new'. New bugs create a penalty in the metric, while the rate of reduction of old bugs is what's to be optimized for while not disincentivize the reporting of 'old' bugs. Hope that makes sense. I have some rough ideas, but I'd like to hope there's some battle tested formulas out there...
taxcoder
Nothing battle-tested, but an interesting question. I'll bow out, because all I have is the rambling incoherence of a bizarre mind.