Software testing and QA budgets keep on going up, and shiny, new toys are all of their focus.
According to a ZDNet report based off of a new survey of 1,543 CIOs, conducted and published by Capgemini and HP, “for the first time, most IT testing and QA dollars are now being spent on new stuff, such as social, mobile, analytics, cloud and the Internet of Things, and less of it on simply modernizing and maintaining legacy systems and applications.”
In fact, this “new IT” is making up 52 percent of the testing budgets, up from 41 percent in 2012. And it’s just part of a trend of rising testing budgets in general, hopefully good news for testers — testing now represents 26 percent of total IT budgets on average, up from 18 percent in 2012, and projected to rise to 29 percent by 2017.
What testing teams are doing with this extra budget is a whole other story, however, so it remains to be seen whether more budget for testing teams is a good thing, and will provide a much-needed boost to teams strapped by a lack of time and misdirected efforts.
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