This is a blog on DORA 2022 Report Wrap Up from my side. In this blog, let us take a look at the key highlights as a wrap up of this year’s report.
Software Testing’s contributions missing totally in the report
It’s very disappointing that Quality and Testing’s contributions are totally missing in the report. Software Testing is finely ingrained in the DevOps functioning, and it is recommended that the future reports include metrics on how Software Testing (end-to-end – from requirements to production – which could be named as ‘Quality functions’ in some organisations) contribute to the software delivery performance and the organisational performance. In fact, it is suggested that in addition to the reliability metrics, there could be a ‘Quality’ topic wherein each stage of software development can be categorized and the impact measured on overall delivery and organisation’s performance.
Participants were young professionals compared to 2021
Out of around 1200+ odd participants in the survey, 27% had 3 to 5 years of experience, 33% had 5 to 10 years of experience, and only 13% had more than 16 years of experience. This shows that the participants were much younger compared to 2021. If this has anything to indicate, I think it shows the respondents were more hands-on on implementing DevOps practices and aware of the practical difficulties in implementing them.
Only 1% from “Quality Assurance” or “Quality Engineering” participated in the survey
While 26% of the survey respondents were from the Development or Engineering, and 23% were from the “DevOps” or SRE, only 1% of the participants were from “Quality Assurance” or “Quality Engineering”. First of all, it is not correct to not to have an option called “Software Testing”. It could be one of the reasons for the very low participation from the Quality circles. Second, “Quality Assurance” and “Quality Engineering” are traditionally the work done by Software Testers. So, it is suggested to call the function as “Software Testing”. We would hope that more Software Testers participate in the State of DevOps survey next year.
Survey Participants representation from countries
It is interesting to note that only four countries in the world have significant participation in the survey – United States: 29%, India: 21%, United Kingdom: 8%, and Spain: 8%. I would have expected more participation from Europe other than UK, Australia, as well as other countries where tech. practices are well established. Maybe the DORA team need to create more awareness among the practitioners from other countries too.
That’s the wrap-up of DORA 2022 States of DevOps review from my side. Let’s look forward for the next year’s DORA report and see how the DevOps implementations fare and what new metrics become important for the practitioners.
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