What is QE or Quality Engineering Score?

Quality Assurance (QA) has evolved from a reactive, gatekeeping role into Quality Engineering (QE), which emphasizes embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) by integrating testing, performance, and user satisfaction. QE promotes early testing, automation, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and a collaborative DevOps culture to enhance software reliability and user experience while reducing bugs and improving security. The Quality Engineering Score, a customized metric, offers a holistic view of software health by aggregating various data points such as defect metrics, test automation effectiveness, deployment efficiency, performance, security, and user feedback. The approach involves setting clear quality goals, selecting relevant metrics, establishing baselines, and using tools like Jira and GitHub Actions for data collection and visualization. Despite the benefits, organizations should avoid pitfalls like focusing solely on numerical scores at the expense of true quality, neglecting context, and failing to promote shared ownership of quality metrics.