Agile techniques: Many organizations have begun to use agile development techniques. These practices put a premium value on collaboration and alter the development cycle because requirements are changing and being completed incrementally as the project is under way. Agile methods also focus on the drive to push quality upstream through techniques such as unit testing and code reviews. Agile practices are encouraging vendors in the tool market to build tools that recognize these process changes and address the shift from isolated specialist tools to coordinated suites that share information and manage and update each other in a complementary fashion. For example, leading tool support integration between software requirements and test plans, and as requirements grow or change, will force a vendor to update its test plan. This collaborative capability is especially important for globally dispersed organizations to keep information loss among groups to a minimum.

Source: Gartner

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