technology professionals responsible for development and testing
Supplementary notes
The questions were phrased by the source as follows: "Has your organization adopted an agile development methodology?" and "Does your development organization practice continuous integration (CI)?"
Agile development is a term used to describe a variety of iterative and incremental software development methodologies. Continuous integration refers to the practice of frequently merging developer copies of software into the main project, usually several times a day.
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Use of agile development and continuous integration by software devs globally 2015-18
The statistic shows the share of software developers worldwide that have adopted agile development methodology and continuous integration (CI) practices worldwide, from 2015 to 2018, based on a survey of development professionals. As of early 2018, ** percent of respondents indicated their organization had adopted an agile development methodology, while ** percent practiced continuous integration.
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Sauce Labs. (February 28, 2018). Adoption of agile development and continuous integration (CI) in software development worldwide from 2015 to 2018 [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 20, 2026, from /statistics/673786/worldwide-software-development-survey-agile-development-continuous-integration-adoption/
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Adoption of agile development and continuous integration (CI) in software development worldwide from 2015 to 2018 [Graph], Sauce Labs, February 28, 2018. [Online]. Available: /statistics/673786/worldwide-software-development-survey-agile-development-continuous-integration-adoption/
