According to a recent SearchSoftwareQuality.com reader survey, your peers have reported that despite the undeniable skillsets of development and test teams, many inefficiencies arise during software testing due to a rampant lack of communication regarding necessary application tweaks and goals.

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• The first step to ensuring quality applications
• Focusing an agile scrum team on quality and testing, and
• Using DevOps approaches for pre-release and production software quality.