Metrics for local development

• Local environment provisioning time: The amount of time developers spend on setting up or troubleshooting their local development environment. This metric indicates inefficiencies in onboarding or local environment maintenance, which can negatively impact productivity. If you are centrally provisioning or fully automating this process, use observability tools to monitor the time dedicated to environment set up. If individual developers need to take action to set up their environment, conduct regular surveys or use time-tracking tools to gather additional data points.

• Post-commit test failure rate: The percentage of tests that fail in an integrated environment after a local commit. This metric allows teams to track and optimize the effectiveness of their local testing environments and workflows. Monitor this metric by calculating the number of tests that fail post-commit in integrated environment divided by the total number of tests run post-commit. Ideally, this metric should trend downwards over time, indicating that local environments are becoming more consistent with integrated environments and that developers are catching more issues before committing changes.