Unlocking Continuous Testing: The Four Best Practices Necessary for Success.

Key Takeaways:

• Organizations have shifted en masse toward new agile development methodologies, believing that doing so would lead to faster release cycles, better product quality and happier customers.
• However problems are afoot: According to Forrester, the percentage of organizations releasing software on an at least monthly basis declined from 36 percent in 2017 to 27 percent in 2018.
• Testing can be one of the single biggest roadblocks standing between organizations and their agile objectives.
• While the majority of organizations have enthusiastically embraced agile planning and development, most still find themselves unable to effectively implement continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle.
• There are four best practices to help overcome this: focus on test quality, keep your tests short and atomic, test across multiple platforms, and leverage parallelization

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