Survey Sees Application Testing Shifting Further Left

Source:-https://devops.com/ PractiTest, a test management platform provider, published a report today that suggests professional application testers have become more adept at working within DevOps workflows. The annual survey of more than 1,000 application testing professionals finds that 80% of all application testing within organizations is being done by test engineers, test leads, testers and automation testers. A full 92% of survey respondents also noted they are working within the context of an agile methodology, while 42% cited DevOps specifically. Half

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Service Level Management Market Survey On Growth Strategies 2029 | ServiceNow, Micro Focus, SysAid, Interlink Software, Alemba

Source:-https://www.mccourier.com The report titled Service Level Management Market has been recently added by Research N Reports which provide readers with a stronger and effective business outlook. The data also presents penetrative insights into several industry attributes such as trends, policies, and clients operating in widespread industrial regions. The qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques have also been used by analysts to provide an accurate overview of global business owners and industry trends. Technical expansions of the Service Level Management market have

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Robust DevOps trend fueled by IT’s need for speed, survey says

Source – techtarget.com In his article “Digitally disruptive competition drives DevOps trend, Troy DuMoulin, vice president of research and development at Pink Elephant, the global IT Service Management (ITSM) training and service provider, laid out why the current DevOps push to improve the quality and delivery of IT services is unlike failed IT efforts in years past. DevOps-focused transformation The first question asked of the survey respondents was to identify what percentage of the respondents were actively working on a DevOps-focused transformation. The

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Survey: DevOps a bright spot among public-sector uncertainty

Source – fcw.com Confidence in public sector IT may be on the decline, according to the 2017 Splunk Public Sector IT Operations Survey, and a greater reliance on DevOps could be key to navigating the way forward. The Ponemon Institute, in a Splunk-sponsored survey released July 19, polled 1,227 “IT decision makers and managers,” some 60 percent of whom work in federal agencies. The goal was to better identify both the barriers to success and the potential keys to a more positive future.

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Public sector IT is struggling to keep up with digital transformation

Source – itproportal.com Public sector IT is suffering from a major crisis in confidence when it comes to the pace of change, new figures have claimed. Despite the need to implement digital transformation ideas and updates, many organisations are facing several major hurdles, according to the 2017 Public Sector IT Operations Survey from Splunk. The study found that public sector organisations undergoing digital transformation are losing confidence in the ability of their IT teams to keep tabs on the increasing level of new

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The secret to DevOps, it’s all about ‘automation’ after all

Source – computerweekly.com The ‘findings’ this year suggest that, as we have hinted more than once recently, the crucial bridge to the new efficiencies in software application development shops come from automation. Puppet says that the highest performing organisations have automated as much as 72 percent of all configuration management processes. Manual configuration sucks Manual configuration, it appears, really does suck, mostly. Low performers are spending almost half of their time (46 percent) on manual configuration. “Splunk’s participation in Puppet’s 2017

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DevOps Done Right Gives You a Competitive Advantage

Source:- techspective.net Have you embraced DevOps? If not, you’re falling behind. DevOps is no longer just a niche concept for cutting edge startups–it’s a business imperative. A successful implementation of DevOps culture, practices and tools gives you a competitive advantage. Ignoring DevOps just leaves you in the dust behind your competitors that have embraced it. DevOps has attained mainstream status. It is no longer a cutting-edge concept that only startups and progressive companies embrace—it’s a business imperative that delivers a

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Agile Is King, But Continuous Integration Is An Elusive Goal

Source:- informationweek.com When it comes to enterprise software development, agile is in, and continuous integration is deemed a worthy goal. Many organizations report that they have adopted some form of agile development. Continuous integration, on the other hand, where frequent application updates are meshed with production systems, remains a goal that’s growing in popularity but implemented by only a few. Those were some of the key responses of of 732 software professionals who participated in a recent survey, Testing Trends In

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Puppet Announces Sixth Annual State of DevOps Survey

Source:- yahoo.com PORTLAND, OR–(Marketwired – Jan 17, 2017) – Puppet, the standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us, today announced it has launched the 2017 State of DevOps Survey in collaboration with DevOps Research & Assessment (DORA), the leader in DevOps research and evidence-based technology assessment. Now in its sixth year, the State of DevOps Survey and Report has surveyed more than 25,000 IT professionals around the world, making it the most in-depth

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