Capgemini, an information technology consulting company, recently released the eighth edition of its annual World Quality Report.
The report is based on responses from 1,600 CIOs and other industry professionals from 32 countries. It identifies several trends in quality assurance and testing, including:
- Digital Transformation continues to drive IT strategy and make itself felt in the quality assurance and testing function;
- Agile and DevOps continued to grow in adoption, with QA making a corresponding move;
- The emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) functionality is a disrupting force with the potential to increase the impact of failure;
- Growing challenges around managing and driving down the cost of test environment management;
- The continued requirement to find efficiencies at every level in QA and Testing remains evident despite this year’s success in containing costs.
The report also makes several key recommendations for manufacturers and quality professionals. These include:
- Invest in intelligent self-learning QA and Testing platforms for all areas of the application landscape;
- Adopt a QA approach for DevOps, both agile and traditionally powered, by enablement teams that help to truly shift left quality;
- Invest in as-a-service solutions for test environment management, test data management and test execution;
- Develop IoT-specific test strategies;
- Manage quality with simple balanced scorecards per line of business and per application or process.
You can see a summary of the report in the infographic below:
(Image courtesy of Capgemini.)
To download the full report, click here.