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Analyse Software Testing Effort/Budget in SDLC from The European Software Testing Benchmark Report 2022
Software projects’ growing efforts and budgets on Software Testing
The European Software Testing Benchmark Report 2022 was released.
The proportion of the SDLC Spent on Testing:
38% think 51+% of SDLC is spent on Testing.
“This shows that testing and quality assurance are slowly becoming more of a priority for businesses all around Europe”.
Please note that 12.3% of professionals are spending 71% — 90% of the SLDC on testing (and 1.2 % for 90+%).
In my previous articles, I stated that I spent ~70% of the whole SDLC on Test Automation and Continuous Testing, in return, I gained 10X+ productivity (compared to myself when working as a senior Java contractor). Some readers found it hard to believe. Now, you can see that I am not alone.
Some might argue my ~70% figure is still much higher than the average ~40%, shown in the chart. I take “Release Early, Release Often” seriously. For all my software, I push updates to production every working day (quite often, multiple times a day). Naturally, I spend more time on Software Testing, mostly Automated End-to-End Regression Testing. Also, I consider automated regression testing essential after the software is released, for support and maintenance.
Besides quality assurance, I have used test automation scripts to help with other activities, such as:
- Showcase demos
- Prepare test data, for business analysts and manual testers
(check out this article: Without Solid Automated End-To-End Regression Testing, Exploratory Testing is Largely Compromised) - Training
- Bug-fixing (developers run automated tests)
(check out this article…
