DevOps -- sorting the leaders from the laggards

What characterizes companies that do DevOps well compared to those that don't? A new study by Forrester for software testing company Tricentis aims to find out. The research looked at 94 quality metrics that were classified into four categories. Key findings are that an understanding of business risk is the most important determining factor of DevOps and Agile maturity. DevOps experts focus primarily on contextual metrics (e.g. requirements coverage) while others focused on 'counting' metrics (e.g. number of tests). Also experts are more likely to measure the user experience across an end-to-end transaction while others rely on application-specific or team-specific metrics. Among… [Continue Reading]