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NASA's recommendation for test execution monitoring, and Figure 5 was drawn from
a real-world project at a large telecom enterprise, where three different projects were
tracked based on the number of TCs not yet executed (test backlog). Evidently, not
only all TCs were equally counted, but also TCs from different projects were com-
pared under the same unit of analysis, regardless of potential variance among TCs
stemming from the dissimilarity of the projects.
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Fig. 3.
Testing execution progress monitoring, [48]
Fig. 4.
Testing execution progress monitoring
In the next example (Table 2), number of tests was recommended as a metric to
track and control testing execution. Since tests are composed of TCs it is reasonable
to assume that this metric implies actually counting TCs from different software fea-
tures ignoring their likely differences.
