Key Quality Indicator (KQI)
A measurable metric that tracks the health and effectiveness of testing and overall software quality over time.
What is Key Quality Indicator (KQI)?
What is Key Quality Indicator (KQI)?
A Key Quality Indicator is a metric chosen to reflect the state of quality and testing—pass rate, flakiness rate, defect escape rate, mean time to detect, coverage of critical flows, or test maintenance effort. Tracking the right KQIs turns quality from a gut feeling into something a team can measure, target, and improve. The most actionable indicators focus on outcomes users feel, such as how many defects reach production and how quickly the suite catches regressions, rather than vanity numbers like raw test count.