TEM (DOT) COM is pleased to announce the 9^th Edition of the World Quality Report from Capgemini, SOGETI and MicroFocus. This 2018 report continues to represent and promote the world of Test Environments Management with a whole chapter dedicated to “Test Data Management and Test Environment Management” information.

This year’s brief captures the response from over 1600 executives across 32 countries.

Here are TEMDOTCOMS favourite 5 statistics

• 46% of respondents identified “a lack of appropriate test environments and data” to be biggest challenge facing Agile Development
• 41% of respondents identified “lack of facilities to book and manage test environments”
• 48% of respondents identified “an inability to manage excess Test Environments demand”
• 47% of respondents identified “a lack of visibility of test environment availability”
• 38% of respondents identified “defects due to environment misconfiguration “

For more details on other stats across Test Environments & Test Data, or across other Quality & DevOps topics then download a complete copy of the report here. Get your copy here: https://www.capgemini.com/service/world-quality-report-2017-18/

Our Summary of WQR findings

While organizations continue to invest significantly in testing & QA, it is still apparent based on this year’s findings and previous years (please refer 2016, 2017) that most organizations continue to struggle with the more complex aspect of Test Operations (Test Environments & Data Management).

On the upside however, the release of the report does indicate an ongoing elevation of awareness which will hopefully result in a change to behaviour, WQR trends (in future editions) and ultimately investment in tooling and enterprise outcomes.