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Better Software Development

By Dennis McCafferty on 2010-06-23


It's not the design process that causes software bugs, developers say. It's the lack of foresight on the part of companies when it comes to adequate testing, according to a recent survey from Electric Cloud. The result is many hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent to correct bugs – time and money that could be sharply reduced.
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58 percent of software-development professionals taking part in the survey say problems in the testing process or IT infrastructure are the causes of software bugs, not design defects.

Just 12 percent of software-development organizations take advantage of a completely automated software testing environment.

8.3 percent of software-development organizations report that all testing for products is done manually.

46 percent of software developers say they do not have time to test products as much as they should.

36 percent of software developers say they do not believe their companies perform enough testing before a product is released.

53 percent of software developers say their testing of products is limited by computing resources.

56 percent of software developers say bugs discovered late in the process of product development almost always impact release dates.

$250,000 is the average cost in lost revenue due to significant software bugs in products, according to a majority of software developers.

20 hours is the median amount of time it takes for software developers to fix a significant software bug in a product.

12 hours: time spent resolving a significant bug at companies with sufficient testing prior to product release.

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