Let's discuss the following topics:
How QA effort is split between development and production support
Reasons for increase of QA effort in the design phase
Share of QA spend in new development projects (as against enhancements/maintenance projects) has grown from 2012-13 to 2013-14 to 2014-15, from 41% to 46% to 52% respectively.
In 2015-16, the QA spend was split 50:50 between new development and production support.
In 2014-15, for the first time, the QA spend for Development exceeded the QA spend for production support. This is in line with more development projects with organizations undertaking more digital transformation related development work. Refer to the following graph: