13  Thresholds and Actions

13.1 Classifying failures with thresholds

13.1.1 Global thresholds

13.1.2 Step-level thresholds

13.1.3 Counts versus proportions

13.2 Reading threshold results

13.3 Responding with actions

13.3.1 Choosing which actions fire

13.4 Final actions

13.5 Asserting quality in tests

13.6 Automatic notifications

13.7 Summary