The 10th annual World Quality Report found that 99% of respondents now use DevOps practices. The focus has shifted from whether to adopt DevOps to how to refine existing DevOps approaches. Customer satisfaction is now the top priority for QA and testing strategies. Challenges with test environments are hindering efficiency gains from trends like faster release cycles. Teams must acquire new skills like AI, IoT, and blockchain testing to keep up with technology changes. The report identified that the top test environment challenges are cost, defects from misconfiguration, lack of booking facilities, maintaining multiple versions, and visibility of untested areas.

1. World Quality Report 2018-19
The results from the 10th anniversary edition of the World Quality Report are
conclusive: 99% of respondents are now using DevOps practices in their
organizations.
It appears the focus is no longer on whether to move to DevOps; rather on how
to refine their DevOps approach and improve continuously.
World Quality Report 2018-19 Findings:
• Customer satisfaction is front and center – Participants in the WQR
reported that ‘Ensure user satisfaction’ is at the top of their QA and testing
strategy. This would have been unthinkable ten years ago. But with
customer-centered innovation driving digital transformations and the
adoption of agile, DevOps, and a move to the Cloud, it is also resetting
the expectations for testing.
• Challenges with test environments are holding back quality assurance and
software testing efficiencies. A problem further exasperated by industry
trends like reduced test cycles and releasing more regularly.
• The skills required for quality assurance and software testing have
changed. Adoption of agile and DevOps, as well as technologies such as
AI, Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain, all require specific technical
expertise, and teams must be prepared to acquire these new skills,
whether by training their existing team members, or hiring specialists into
the team.
Key Test Environment Insights
Test Environments continues to be a problem for most.

2. Key Test Environment Challenges Identified in the report include:
• 54% Cost of test environments
• 54% Defects due to test environment misconfiguration
• 38% Lack of test environment booking facilities
• 37% Having to maintain multiple test environment versions
• 34% Lack of visibility on what can’t be tested due to environments
• 31% Lack of right environments being made available on time
https://www.capgemini.com/service/world-quality-report-2018-19/
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