How is QA effort spread
Let's discuss the following topics:
- How QA effort is split between development and production support
- Reasons for increase of QA effort in the design phase
Split of QA effort between development and production support
Share of QA spend in new development projects (as against enhancements/maintenance projects) has grown from 2012-13 to 2013-14 to 2014-15, from 41% to 46% to 52% respectively.
In 2015-16, the QA spend was split 50:50 between new development and production support.
In 2014-15, for the first time, the QA spend for Development exceeded the QA spend for production support. This is in line with more development projects with organizations undertaking more digital transformation related development work. Refer to the following graph:
Increased QA efforts for new development – point of view
It is evident that when QA is done for new code (as against QA for maintaining/enhancing the existing code), QA effort will be higher.
Organizations are practicing...