Advanced Level – Cross-Cutting
DORA Metrics – ISTQB Definition
Last Updated: July 12, 2026 · SoftwareTestPilot QA Team
Official ISTQB Definition
Four key metrics used to measure DevOps performance: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and mean time to restore.
In simple words
Deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, mean time to restore — the four DevOps performance KPIs.
Exam tip
DORA metrics come from the Accelerate research and are the standard DevOps scorecard.
Related terms
- DevOpsDev and Ops share ownership of building, shipping and running the product — automation and CI/CD glue it together.
- Continuous Delivery (CD)The pipeline can push any commit to production, but a human clicks ‘go’.
- Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)The average time from a failure to the system being back up.
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