Posts Tagged 'Traceability'

Combat the Rising 'Software Tax': 3 Ways IT Leaders Can Contain Unplanned Vendor Costs

October 24, 2026

A recent survey of over 2,000 IT leaders uncovered a stark reality: organizations face a forced "software tax" of 28% just to keep pace with OEM application updates. For enterprise​s, this equates to nearly $13 million in mandatory spending on upgrades pushed by IT providers. Worse yet, the problem is accelerating. As rapid advancements in AI drive more frequent vendor release cycles, we at Inflectra predict this hidden tax will only continue to climb.

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The Defect-Requirements-Test Triangle

July 15, 2014

It is quite a popular notion that there should be formally recorded associations or links between defects and software code configuration items. This can explain why a piece of code has later been modified and also helps individuals find their way back to the ‘fix’ should the defect be found to still exist upon re-testing. But there are other ways to achieve this and so the question is: can the relationship between the defect and the code really be the most important one? Read More