With DevOps on the Rise, Unified Testing Gaining Momentum with CIOs

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The move toward DevOps is reshaping how organizations approach software development and deployment, and according to research conducted by Appvance Inc., the leader in DevOps QA, an effective DevOps strategy and addressing unified testing are major concerns for the majority of CIOs and other decision makers.

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The research shows that 91% of CIOs and other key decision makers agree that executing a DevOps strategy is a top priority for their organization. Also, 91% of respondents agree addressing integrated unified testing is a critical aspect of their DevOps requirements. Appvance conducted the research with Vanson Bourne, polling 200 enterprise IT decision makers in the United States in September 2015.

The move to DevOps requires new development tools, Ops/IT tools, and a new approach to QA, as indicated with the survey. What are CIOs looking for in their DevOps solutions? The survey shows 87% identify increasing velocity and productivity as top priorities. Nearly all agree there are gaps in the current approaches to testing, and 89% noted ensuring confidence in the quality of releases is critical to the success of DevOps efforts.

"Nobody is happy with the current QA situation. They are making dangerous trade-offs in quality and security to attempt to improve velocity, and are looking for something new," said Appvance CEO Kevin Surace. "Effective and efficient DevOps operations require both velocity and quality. Legacy processes use five to ten siloed tools and teams, each requiring different scripting languages and methods, and taking weeks or more to create and run automated software tests. It's frankly untenable, and arguably a broken system."

A majority of respondents agreed (68%) that the number of tools required to perform complete testing is slowing their time to market. As scripts can be one of the largest pain points in many testing programs, both time consuming and potential points of failure, 86% think a unified platform combining all the testing needed without scripting would greatly improve time to market.

The majority (86%) indicated their budgets for DevOps have increased over the last year, and 85% will see their budgets continue to increase in 2016. To improve DevOps processes, 76% are evaluating new DevOps QA technologies to replace their current sets.

Appvance is a disruptive unified test automation platform (UTAP) that delivers on the "velocity with quality" needs of DevOps, driving a proven 5x to 12x improvement in productivity and run-time over legacy processes. For more information on how Appvance can improve your DevOps testing challenges, visit: www.appvance.com/unified-test-platform.

About Appvance Inc.

Appvance provides the only DevOps unified automated test platform. Built from the ground up with agile and cloud services in mind, Appvance offers true Beginning-to-End data-driven unified functional, performance, compatibility, and synthetic APM testing, enabling users to quickly uncover client-side and server-side issues in a fraction of the time of traditional testing solutions. The Appvance platform drives quality and velocity for DevOps-oriented or traditional development teams, showing 5x to 12x overall productivity improvements over siloed QA tools. Founded in 2012 by a team of experienced industry veterans, Appvance is a venture-backed company headquartered in San Jose, CA, funded by Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund, FundersClub, Three Bridges Ventures and HB Asset Management. Learn more at http://www.appvance.com.

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