Increased complexity of testing in the agile landscape

The report finds that DevOps implementation challenges go far beyond issues with QA, and businesses risk isolating the benefits of DevOps if they are unable to break down business silos. DevOps and agile delivery methodologies are gaining wide acceptance at a rapid pace. More and more organizations are adopting new ways of delivering IT projects, based on agile principles.

With the advent of mobile, digital, and cloud-based technologies, the IT landscape is changing fast. There is continuous demand from the business to deliver new and improved IT solutions to end users. Time to market is shrinking and application complexity is increasing. At the same time, quality expectations are rising. For applications, especially those based on clouds, a higher level of testing is needed to ensure performance and security requirements are met. Testing complexity is enhanced further due to multiple access channels and various mobile and handheld devices that need to be supported by modern-day digital applications.

Identifying the right focus areas for testing and involving testing teams early, right from planning and inception stages, are considered the top two challenges for agile implementation. This creates difficulty with regard to allocating the appropriate level of test types and test depth to meet project requirements.