Can Speed and Quality Coexist in the SDLC?

Parasoft conducted a survey asking 780 software developers about functional and non-functional requirements (NFRs)

There’s a gap between businessexpectations and DevTest activities

The Business DevTest Team

Poor Software Quality

5 KEY TAKEAWAYS

A majority of organizations are unable to assess the real business risksassociated with a software release candidate 1

of teams do not measurecompliance to NFRs

NFRs55%

Reducing the risk of application failure requires much more than functional testing 2

*Types of software development methodologies employed

*Types of software development methodologies employed

There is an inverse correlation between more ‘Agile’ methodologies and the likelihood that teams measure NFR compliance3

38%of Agile-ish and Agile teams are monitoring NFRs 58% of Waterfall teamsVS

Organizations that rely too heavily on developers and testers to dene ‘quality’ will cultivate a rift with the business4

The Business DevTest Team

The shift to DevOps requires organizations to clearly dene and automatically measure the acceptance criteria for a software release candidate5

4 ACTIONS FOR TEAMS

Jointly denebusiness risks atproject’s onset

Understand KPIsand acceptancethresholds for NFRs

Automaticallymeasure andmonitor NFRs

Review andcontinuously

improve the processof risk mitigation

Better Software Quality

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