Quality Assurance How-To Guide

QA Metrics and Test Environments

Last updated: July 21, 2026 2 min read Intermediate

The QA metrics dashboard turns your testing activity into clear signals about quality and effort, and test environments record where each test was run. Both live in the Quality Assurance group in the sidebar. This guide explains the metrics you will see and how to set up environments.

Open the metrics dashboard

In the sidebar, open the Quality Assurance group and select Metrics. Use the filters to set the period start, period end, and granularity (daily, weekly, or monthly) for the trend data.

Key metrics

  • Defect detection rate: the share of defects caught during testing compared with those that escaped to production.
  • Test effectiveness: the defects found by your tests as a proportion of all defects.
  • Requirement coverage: the reverse coverage of test cases linked to requirements versus those left unlinked.
  • Test case reusability: how many test cases are reused across cycles compared with the total.

Effort variance and maintenance

Select a test cycle to compare estimated and actual duration and see the variance, both overall and for the test cases with the largest gaps. The maintenance indicators highlight test cases that may need attention based on their age, failure rate, and complexity.

Trends over time

The trends section tracks pass rate, coverage, and execution count over time, so you can see how your testing process moves across the selected period.

Manage test environments

Test environments record where a test was run, for example Staging, Production, or a QA environment.

  1. Open the Quality Assurance group and select Test Environments.
  2. Use the Create button to open the environment dialog. When AI create is enabled for your account, Create with AI can draft it from a short prompt.
  3. Enter the name, an optional description, and an optional URL.
  4. Leave the environment active, or turn it off so it does not appear during execution.
  5. Save the environment.

You can toggle an environment active or inactive at any time. When you run a test, select the environment in the execution settings so each result records where it ran.

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