More Procedures in Software Configuration Management

Published November 23rd, 2009 Under Numbers | Leave a Comment

Our last poll examined how software configuration management (change management / version control) is performed by organisations. Is it an informal activity or performed with formal procedures that are validated by an automated tool?

2009 2006
No formal procedure and no tool 13% 15%
A formal procedure but no tool. 11% 10%
A tool but no formal procedure 17% 26%
A formal procedure and a tool 36% 49%
Continuous integration 23%

Participants: 271 (346 in 2006)

Ending date: November 2009 (April 2006) Read more

No Functional Testing for the Dumb Developer ?

Published August 31st, 2009 Under Numbers | Leave a Comment

A recent Methods & Tools survey tried to evaluate the usage of tools to automate execution of functional software tests. A similar poll was conducted in 2005 and it was interesting to compare the results. Read more

Software Development Training Survey: Between Ugly and Good

Published April 27th, 2009 Under Numbers, Software Development | Leave a Comment

Our question was: How many weeks of training have you followed on average the past 3 years??

None 23%
Less than one week 19%
One week (5 days) 15%
One to two weeks 18%
Two weeks to one month 8%
More than one month 17%

Number of participants: 258
Ending date: April 2009 Read more

CMMI: Less Hyped Than Agile but Equally Popular?

Published January 27th, 2009 Under Methods & Tools, Numbers, Software Development | Leave a Comment

A recent Methods & Tools poll examined at what stage is the CMMI approach adoption in software development organizations.

Not aware 13%
Not using 29%
Investigating 8%
Analysed and rejected 4%
Trying to reach Level 2 12%
CMMI Level 2, 3 or 4 20%
CMMI Level 5 14%

Participants: 392

Ending date: January 2009 Read more

Do We Need Unit Testing?

Published October 28th, 2008 Under Numbers | Leave a Comment

A recent Methods & Tools poll examined how organizations perform unit testing. Is it an informal activity that is done before integration if there is some time left after programming or is it the key element of the development effort? The question was: How is unit testing performed at your location? Read more

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