European software firms are neglecting quality assurance in application development, according to a recently released study. Compuware Corp. found that 78 percent of the surveyed organizations didn’t apply a formal quality assurance methodology to their software development processes. A quarter of the respondents reported that their quality assurance teams didn’t have sufficiently trained or experienced members, and a third said they had no full-time team manager.

“If you don’t have the correct processes and steps [such as quality assurance] in place, you may not be properly prepared when it comes to testing, and may even test the wrong part of the applications,” warns Sarah Saltzman, Compuware’s technology support manager “[Firms also] need to embed business requirements into the development process, but sometimes it gets lost in the detail.”

For more information, visit www.compuware.com.

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