{"id":1235,"date":"2015-10-13T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T07:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2015-10-05T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T13:13:54","slug":"less-than-a-fifth-of-european-businesses-have-digital-testing-strategy-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsnews.online\/less-than-a-fifth-of-european-businesses-have-digital-testing-strategy-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Less than a fifth of European businesses have digital testing strategy in place"},"content":{"rendered":"
According to a recent study, only 18% of European businesses surveyed have fully implemented a digital testing strategy.<\/p>\n
Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC)\u2019s \u2018Digital Testing in Europe \u2013 Strategies, Challenges & Measuring Success,\u2019 research looks at how organisations are ensuring that the testing and quality assurance (QA) function is able to support the digital agenda of the business.<\/p>\n
This is often led by departments such as sales and marketing, who circumvent the CIO and undertake their own development projects, while using emerging tools and platforms.<\/p>\n
The study, supported by Accenture, HP, TestPlant, Applause and Worksoft, found that 26% of organisations in the region have formulated a digital testing strategy but have not yet implemented it. A further 35% plan to develop a digital testing strategy in the next year.<\/p>\n
The study found that the biggest obstacle in implementing digital testing strategies is in taking a consistent approach to testing across multiple channels of engagement, an issue cited by almost half of all participants. The second biggest issue is that of integrating digital into legacy systems, which was regarded as a \u2018primary\u2019 challenge by 39% of participants.<\/p>\n
More than 60% of businesses use the same team to test both digital projects and existing applications.<\/p>\n
Nearly 23% of companies currently allocate more than 60% of their testing budgets to new development in 2015, but this will increase to a level of 27% in 2017.\u00a0The majority of companies use an array of tools (in-house, packaged, open source) and approaches (virtualisation, in-production testing) as part of their digital testing strategies.<\/p>\n
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