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UK businesses risk significant financial loss with inadequate software testing

UK businesses risk significant financial loss with inadequate software testing

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82 per cent of UK businesses believe that poor software testing costs them significant amounts of money, and a third (39 per cent) have had firsthand experience of this in the last two years. Despite a clear appreciation of the benefits of testing, a worrying 81 per cent have no idea what proportion of project costs are allocated to it.The independent survey commissioned by software testing and quality management consultancy SQS revealed that although there was...



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