UK managers in dark about IT quality and performance. (IT News).Nearly half of senior business managers in UK organisations believe that five percent or less of IT resource is sufficient for quality assurance through application testing application testing - system testing , compared with the recommended industry standard of up to 50 percent. These figures were gathered in a survey of 200 F'Ds and MDs of companies with a turnover of 1 million [pounds sterling] or more, conducted by Continental Research for TesCom. Only 15 percent of companies with over 100 employees that undertake in-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. application development, hire professional testers on their development teams. However, 66 percent of organisations claim that they use `whatever resources are available in the company at the time' to ensure the performance and quality of IT applications. Only 15 percent of UK organisations use automated testing (testing) automated testing - Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation. tools, indicating that business managers are not aware of how best to speed time to market in software development. A quarter of business managers have no idea how the quality of their in- in- word element [L.], in, within, or into. in- word element [L.], not. in- 1 or il- or im- or ir- pref. house software is ensured, claiming that they leave it to the discretion of their IT managers. www.tescom.com |
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