Global Study Reveals 80 Percent of Businesses Missing Out on Full Benefits of Continuous Testing
July 19 2017 - 9:34AM
Business Wire
CA Technologies Study Shows Only 1 in 5
Organizations Use Test Automation as a Business Enabler
Results from a CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) global study reveal
that while 75 percent of organizations highlight continuous testing
as critical or important, only a minority of survey respondents
have made exceptional progress acquiring the necessary knowledge
and key enablers to drive digital transformation. The 20 percent of
survey respondents identified as continuous testing ‘Leaders’ enjoy
a boost to software delivery speed, quality and efficiency,
resulting in a better return on investments for continuous
delivery.
According to the study, “Continuous Testing as a Digital
Business Enabler”, leaders were:
- 2.3x more likely to have succeeded in
left-shifting testing activity;
- 2.6x more likely to reduce defects by
more than 50 percent;
- 2.4x more confident in quality of
output;
- 1.9x more confident in speed of
delivery; and
- Leaders were also 3.9x more likely to
be working in an organization exhibiting rapid revenue growth.
“As organizations build their modern software factories, it is
important not to sacrifice quality in the quest for ever greater
speed and efficiency in business growth and success,” said Jeff
Scheaffer, general manager, Continuous Delivery, CA Technologies.
“Software quality and testing is becoming everyone’s responsibility
and it is incumbent that business and IT management ensure everyone
is appropriately enabled – business analysts, developers, release
managers and operations professionals all play role in the quality
chain.”
While 93 percent of respondents reported testing automation as
important, only 1 in 5 said they achieved a good level of test
automation coverage (80 percent or more), leaving 4 out of 5 still
relying heavily on manual processes. The majority of respondents
attributed challenges to the lack of automation in almost every
aspect of the testing process and tooling; from the generation of
test cases, through test execution, to critical activities such as
fast, safe and efficient test data management.
The importance of automating test data was also highlighted as a
top need in ensuring test data is available when needed and
avoiding personally identifiable information. Nevertheless, the
majority of respondents felt they weren’t efficient in this area,
even though it would make it easier to safeguard personal data
across both development and testing environments and meet ever
stricter data privacy legislation, such as the European Union’s
imminent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Throughout the study, all respondents highlighted the importance
of modern methodologies like deploying agile development,
continuous delivery, and DevOps. When pressed to prioritize, and
call out a singular key to success, 63 percent of respondents said
it is the combination of agile development plus continuous delivery
that optimizes the effective integration of activities throughout
the whole software development lifecycle. Overall, a holistic and
balanced approach of both modern practices and tooling are
reshaping how software is developed and supporting business
transformation across industries.
For more information and to try out CA’s leading continuous
testing solutions, visit www.ca.com/continuous-testing.
Resources
- Continuous Testing Research
Infographic
- Continuous Testing Readiness
Assessment
- Continuous Testing as Digital Business
Enabler Webcast
- Video: Continuous Testing to Improve
Software Quality
- Blog: The Art of Making Your Bed and
Continuous Testing
About the Research/Freeform Dynamics
Conducted by Freeform Dynamics and commissioned by CA
Technologies, the worldwide survey included 923 IT and testing
professionals. Freeform Dynamics is an IT industry analyst firm
that focuses on helping busy IT and business professionals get up
to speed on the latest technology developments, and make
better-informed investment decisions. For more information, please
visit www.freeformdynamics.com.
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels
transformation for companies and enables them to seize the
opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart
of every business in every industry. From planning, to development,
to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide
to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across
mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe
environments. Learn more at www.ca.com.
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