Method and system to measure preventability of failures of an application

摘要

Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a method and system for measuring preventability metric of an application. The preventability metric quantifies the extent to which bugs and failures, and the causes for failures are diagnosed in the application. Also, the extent to which appropriate preventive or corrective activities are deployed before deployment of the application is provided. Further, a framework to monitor and control the preventability metric systematically is disclosed. The methodology is to obtain the efficiency of the preventive techniques used on the application, use the obtained efficiency measures to arrive at a preventability metric that quantifies the preventability of failures of the application.

主权项

1. A method to measure preventability of failures of an application, the method comprising executing at an application server, the steps of:
receiving a request for identifying at least one predefined metric corresponding to the application, wherein each identified predefined metric expresses efficiency of a corresponding failure preventive techniques implemented in connection with the application; assigning a weighing coefficient to each identified predefined metric; generating one or more weighted metric values for the application, wherein generating the one or more weighted metric values comprises measuring a value corresponding to each identified predefined metric and multiplying each measured value with the weighing coefficient assigned thereto; combining the one or more weighted metric values to generate a preventability metric expressing effectiveness of failure preventability within the application; and transmitting the generated preventability metric to a client.