Air Date: 10/11/2022
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Show Notes:
Download the World Quality Report 2022 – 2023
https://www.uk.sogeti.com/content-hub/reports/world-quality-report-2022-23/
Scott’s Takeaways
- While Agile and Devops adoption is still in the infancy stage for large enterprise companies. Of those that are implementing it, only 58% of organizations feel performance is important when executing a successful agile development program.
- Getting proper automation coverage for test cases is still a struggle in 2022 and many organizations do not think about automation in the requirements and stories phase. Only 50% of teams are getting the benefits of automation. I would have hoped this was higher.
- Over 75% of organizations trying to implement sustainable IT do NOT feel performance or the end user experience is very important. This is probably one of the most disappointing pieces of information in the report. Moving non-production environments to the cloud isn’t efficient unless all the applications are ALSO efficient (and performant).
- Only 33% realize automation benefits from the “non-functional” stage of testing. Very disappointing. I believe this is related to the lack of skill sets.
- There is a lack of skills within the Quality Engineering space (and in all areas of IT right now). There are many reasons for this. The expectation of the “Full Stack Quality Engineer” is a farce (just like the full stack developer). Specifically in the performance engineering space, the landscape is changing and we must change too. I still maintain that performance engineering will require focus and specialization. Many of my DevOps advocate friends do not agree with this. This brings me to a post on LinkedIn that I started last week on one way to try and tackle this:
I don’t know all of the answers, but I think we as a community have to start talking about this because things will not get better unless we make some changes. Complexity will not decrease, and as time moves on people and their roles change. How can we ensure a level of competency regardless of these changes?
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