World Quality Report 2015-16 Key Challenges

The World Quality Report Highlights Industry Trends and Challenges faced in the following areas; 

• Digital Transformation
• QA and Testing Budgets Outperform
• Security Testing is the Top IT Strategy Priority
• Agile Testing Maturing to the Enterprise
• Industrialization Becoming More Advanced
• Test Environments and Test Data Management

Agile testing is maturing to enterprise

 

1. Approaches to testing in agile in your organization

• 40% use exploratory testing 
• 39% use test driven and behaviour driven deployment 
• 38% use functional test driven and behaviour driven development

2. Challenges faced in applying testing to agile development

• 33% answered there is a difficulty in identifying the right areas on which test should focus
• 31% said lack of approriate test environment and data and lack of professional test expertise in agile teams 
• 29% agreed that it is difficult to test in a distributed environment and difficult to reuse and repeat tests across sprints/iterations 

3. Implementation of DevOps practices 

• 51% Break down large efforts into smaller batches of work 
• 50% Use continuous testing 
• 46% Create a delivery pipeline 

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Industrialisation becoming more advanced

Test automation benefits 

• 72% agreed better detection of defects
• 70% agreed better control and transparency of test activities 
• 69% agreed reduction of test cycle time 

Test Automation Challenges 

• 53% Application functionality changes too frequently 
• 40% said delivery methodology doesn't support test automation 
• 31% agreed they don't have the right automation tools 

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Test Environments and Test Data Management 

Test Environment Types 

• 48% use a virtualised test environment 
• 47% maintain and use a permanent test environment 
• 45% Set up and use cloud based temporary test environments

Challenges in managing test data

• 44% having to maintain multiple versions of hardware, middleware and systems under test
• 33% lack of availability of right hardware (servers, storage, networks, working stations etc.)
• 33% lack of clarity on efficient usage of available configuration

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Summary of Findings & Recommendations

• Re-focus QA &Testing on Customer Experience and Business Assurance
• Transform traditional TCoE to Agile & DevOps
• Industrialize Security Testing
• Use Predictive Analysis to prioritize testing activities
• Continue to grow Test Automation
• Build Virtualization and Cloud Testing Platform capabilities
• Expand skill sets of QA & Test teams