Meeting the Challenges of Quality Testing Plans

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Demand for quality testing is on the rise for cloud environments, the IoT and mobile apps, but IT faces many challenges in responding to these needs.

88% of survey respondents said their organization uses—or is experimenting with—DevOps principles (including continuous testing) for projects, but 77% of companies are using them for less than half of their projects, if at all.

96% said their company has adopted agile methodologies (including agile testing) for at least some of their projects.

Lack of appropriate test environment and data: 46%

Difficulty in re-use and repeat tests throughout sprints/iterations: 45%

Lack of good testing approach that fits with agile development method: 44%

87% of survey respondents said their organization is using or plans to use cloud-based test environments to support DevOps practices.

At most, an average of only 16% of common test activities is performed using automation technology.

42% of respondents said their organization faces test automation challenges in the form of test data and environment availability. The same percentage said their current automation solution does not support mobile testing.

58% said they either have a “fairly mature” internet of things (IoT) test strategy or plan to launch an IoT-specific testing strategy in the near future.

Testing end-to-end user experiences, including performance: 26%

Testing interactions between different layers: 26%

Creating a test environment with virtualized end-products, devices or test data: 26%

Testing the security aspect: 24%

Efficiency and performance: 53%

User interface and ease of use: 48%

Certification of app: 46%

Functionality: 44%

Security: 43%

Lack of time for testing: 52%

Lack of correct testing processes and methods: 47%

Lack of the right tools for testing: 46%