A note from our founders:
Mabl recently hosted our third annual mabl Experience, a conference dedicated to recognizing the critical work of quality professionals in software development. Over 1200 software testers, quality leaders, and engineering professionals joined us for two days of presentations, panels, and discussions. Across diverse sessions from leading companies like Stack Overflow, Chewy, JetBlue, Barracuda, Dawn Foods, Kintent, SmugMug, and more, it became clear that quality engineering is underpinning many of the fundamental transformations taking place in the software industry.
The successes described at mabl Experience correlate strongly with the trends highlighted in our fourth annual Testing in DevOps Report. This report gathered insights from over 500 quality and engineering professionals and emphasizes how quality, automation, and DevOps practices are evolving simultaneously to meet customer needs in our digital-first world.
A successful DevOps transformation shifts how people, processes, and technology are aligned within a software organization, ultimately enabling faster and more reliable delivery pipelines. The core challenge, however, is evolving all three of those pillars at once. Mabl’s Testing in DevOps Report captures not just an assessment of where companies are in the adoption of DevOps practices, but the impact of that transformation and the key drivers of it. This year, we found that delivery cycles are indeed accelerating - but also strongly differentiated by how well an organization has adopted automation, particularly test automation.
Software development organizations that reported highly automated pipelines and high test coverage were the most likely to see the greatest gains in product velocity and customer satisfaction. The data suggests that these outcomes were due to earlier defect discovery, faster bug resolution processes, and an overall importance of quality that supported more confident releases. Mature DevOps companies with automated pipelines continued to lead the pack in deployment frequency, test coverage, release confidence, and most importantly, customer satisfaction. Quality engineering and software testing underpins all of this progress, highlighting just how important it is to empower testers and elevate testing on the road to DevOps and digital transformation.
We’re honored to serve the quality engineering community as they undertake these crucial transformations to improve our digital world. As we witnessed at mabl Experience 2022 and discover in the findings of this report, better testing enables more effective pipeline automation, which in turn accelerates product velocity and improves customer satisfaction. Quality is not just a buzzword, it’s a pillar of DevOps.
We thank the survey respondents, our Friends of mabl customer community, and of course, the reader for taking the time to explore the exciting world of quality engineering in 2022.
Sincerely,
Dan Belcher and Izzy Azeri, mabl co-founders