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failure rate

📖 ISTQB Glossary

Official ISTQB Definition

The ratio of the number of failures of a given category to a given unit of measure.

3 Ways to Think About It

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The Quick Take

How often failures occur per unit of time or usage.

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Look Closer

The frequency of system failures - MTBF's inverse.

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The Bottom Line

A reliability metric measuring how often things break.

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