6 advantages of automation in the software lifecycle

6 Advantages of Automation in the
Software Lifecycle (+Microsoft's
Acceleration in Low-Code)
1. Immediate Feedback
With fast test execution, developers get testing
reports instantly, so whenever a failure occurs, they
will react to it quickly. Forget about struggling to
decipher the code written three weeks ago.

Source: BitBar


2. Automation Frees Developers to
Focus on Innovation
Automation doesn’t just give developers greater
confidence in components and systems, and make
developers more productive, but it also makes it
more enjoyable, said Keeler.
“Automation lets us offload important but
repetitious work onto a machine, freeing us up to
focus our creative efforts elsewhere,” he said.

Source: Maria Korolov


3. Automation Enhances DevOps
Practices
“Automation is critical,” said Dayaratna, of IDC.
“And it is also critical to reducing friction between
hand-offs in the development lifecycle, particularly
in the context of development that’s done by

distributed teams.”
When companies switch to DevOps, deployments
speed up, he said. “Automation is part of DevOps.
It’s central to DevOps practices.”

Source: Maria Korolov


4. AI Can Improve Development and
Testing
Automation can help companies address licensing
and security issues in software development.
A large organization may be running hundreds of
different tests against their applications, at all
points in the software lifecycle. Many of those tests
will fail and will need to be repeated.

Source: Maria Korolov


5. AI Automation Makes It Easier to
‘Shift Left’
Software programmers are the single best user
group inside the enterprise to understand the
benefits of intelligent automation, and make the
best possible use of it, added Genpact’s Srivastava.
“They are the best barometer of where the world is
going,” he said.

Source: Maria Korolov

6. Automation Saves Companies Money
If extrapolated out for the entire software industry,
the report stated, savings could reach billions, with
intelligent automation saving companies an
average of $192,000 annually.

Source: Maria Korolov


Microsoft Accelerates the Journey to
Low Code
The low-code development platform market traces
back to 2011 but Microsoft’s journey goes further
back, “There’s really like multiple generations of
low code. If you go back to Excel, Visual Basic and
Access, Microsoft’s been in the game for 25-30
years for quite some time,” said Charles Lamanna,
corporate vice president, Business Apps and
Platform at Microsoft

Source: Celeste Malia


From HR to customer support, low code excels
across a broad set of use cases. “To run your
business efficiently and truly be digitally
transformed, you probably need 10 to 20,000,
different applications and workflows. And there’s

not going to be something off the shelf for all of
those,” said Lamanna.

Source: Celeste Malia


“Because managing data access to your data,
whether it’s at the database or at the API layer is
the most sensitive information that you can
manage,” Lamanna added.

Source: Celeste Malia


“I think that there will be a billion low code
developers in the fullness of time. Anyone who has
a smartphone or a PC, can do low-code
development,” Lamanna said. While this new
technology holds a big promise in the way
applications are built, how much adoption will be
gained through Microsoft’s approach remains to be
seen.

Source: Celeste Malia