2019 Benchmark Report: Through the SIG looking glass

In this report we present our view through SIG’s looking glass; our state of the union address, as it were. Our goal is to provide you with the relevant insights you need to improve software quality wherever you go next.

In the first annual Benchmark Report, we will focus on the following three research questions:

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  Has software quality improved or declined?
  In the grand perspective of the software industry, we feel overall insight is missing on whether software quality is actually improving or whether it’s in decline.

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  Do better software processes produce better quality software?
  Commonly, executives and practitioners alike expect the quality of software processes to have a large influence on the quality of the resultant products. We are in the position to correlate data sets on both these angles, and thus can address this expectation head on.

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  What’s the future impact of emerging technology stacks?
  Reflections on the past are not complete without projections into the future. What do we at SIG see emerging in our recently collected data, and what does that mean for decision makers in the field?