In today's digital economy, companies have to deliver software faster to the market to keep pace with consumer demand. To achieve this without sacrificing quality and security, organizations have to be able to effectively test software code changes thoroughly and quickly. But achieving this thorough testing can be a bottleneck, bringing stress and risk to software teams, delaying delivery, and having a direct impact on the business.
One of the biggest contributing factors to software project delays are bugs discovered late in the development process, which occurs because the business puts pressure on development teams to maintain schedules, having a direct side effect on testing and product quality. To help address this issue, development teams leverage unit testing and static code analysis to expose defects earlier in the cycle; however, these practices come with drawbacks of their own, related to time and cost, that can cause a delay in achieving quality at speed.