Survey conducted for Micro Focus by The Harris Poll shows that Agile and DevOps reduce the cost of a defect when compared to Waterfall.

Organizations using Agile, or DevOps, to develop and deliver software observe that these methodologies are helping to reduce the impact of defects escaping into production. However, defects continue to appear in production, and even low-impact defects can have a cumulative detrimental effect on a brand.

A recent survey conducted for Micro Focus by The Harris Poll explored how organizations track the cost of functional, performance, and security defects, the breakdown of those costs, and whether incremental software development methodologies such as Agile and DevOps help to reduce the cost when compared to Waterfall software development.

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