Over 90 Percent of Developers See Unit Testing as the Most Effective Practice in Reducing Software Bugs, Typemock Survey Finds
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More than one-third of developers spend up to 25 percent of their time finding and fixing bugs in their software
Tel-Aviv, April 4, 2012 – Typemock, (http://www.typemock.com/) the leading provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, released today the results of their developer survey, finding that over 90 percent of developers agree that unit testing is an effective practice to reduce software bugs. Typemock surveyed developers from around the world to gather their opinion on the impact of software bugs. The global online survey showed that developers think that unit testing was more effective in reducing bugs than other practices, such as integration testing, pair programming, and QA. Only 50-70 percent of respondents find them to be effective in reducing bugs.
80 percent of respondents said that bugs are the responsibility of developers and only 8 percent said it was QA’s. More than 54 percent of respondents noted that they were responsible for bugs in their company’s software. An additional 26 percent of respondents felt that another developer was most responsible for software bugs.
Finding and fixing bugs takes up a significant portion of developers’ time, according to the survey. 48 percent of respondents said that they spend up to 5 hours each week finding and fixing bugs and 38 percent said they spend up to 10 hours a week on this alone, which is 25 percent of the average work week. An additional 12 percent spend over 10 hours of their week finding and fixing bugs. According to data received from customers using Typemock Team Ma