Gartner identifies five major strategic technology trends in software engineering for 2024
Gartner has released the five most important strategic technology trends in software engineering for 2024 and beyond. Achieving business goals is one of the top three performance goals for 65% of software engineering leaders, according to Gartner’s survey of 300 software engineering and application development team leaders in US and UK quarters in 2023. By investing in disruptive technologies, software engineering leaders can empower your teams to achieve business goals for productivity, sustainability and growth.
“Technology trends identified by Gartner are already helping early adopters achieve their business goals” said Joachim Herschmann, vice president of analysts at Gartner.These disruptive tools and practices enable software engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable AI-powered applications while reducing work and friction in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), improving developer experience and productivity.“
The top five strategic technology trends for software engineering in 2024 are:
Software Engineering Intelligence
Software engineering intelligence platforms provide a unified, transparent view of engineering processes that helps managers understand and measure not only speed and flow, but also quality, organizational effectiveness, and business value.
Gartner predicts that by 2027, 50% of software engineering organizations will use software intelligence platforms to measure and increase developer productivity, up from 5% in 2024.
Development enhanced by artificial intelligence
Software engineering managers need a cost-effective way to help their teams build software faster. According to a Gartner study, 58% of respondents said their organization is using or plans to use generative artificial intelligence in the next 12 months to control or reduce costs.
AI-augmented development involves using AI technologies, such as generative AI and machine learning, to help software engineers design, code, and test applications. AI-augmented development tools integrate with a software engineer’s development environment to build application code, enable design-to-code transformation, and improve application testability.
“Investing in AI-augmented development will help software engineering managers increase developer productivity and control costs, and can also improve their teams’ ability to deliver more value.” said Mr. Herschmann.
Environmental software engineering
Environmental software engineering is the discipline of creating software that is aware of its impact on the environment. Building green software includes energy-efficient choices for architecture and design patterns, algorithms, data structures, programming languages, language runtimes, and infrastructure.
Gartner predicts that by 2027, 30% of large global enterprises will include software sustainability in their non-functional requirements, up from less than 10% in 2024.
Using heavy workloads increases an organization’s carbon footprint, and AI-driven generative applications are particularly power-hungry, so implementing green software engineering will help organizations prioritize their sustainability goals.
Platform engineering
Platform engineering reduces the cognitive load of developers by delivering core capabilities through internal development portals and platforms that can be used by multiple product teams. These platforms provide a compelling “pavement path” for software development, allowing developers to save time and be more satisfied with their work.
Gartner predicts that by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will have platform engineering teams, up from 45% in 2022.
Development environments in the cloud
Cloud development environments provide remote access to a plug-and-play development environment hosted in the cloud with minimal installation and configuration effort. This separation between the development workspace and the physical workstation allows for a cohesive and seamless development experience, as well as faster developer onboarding.
Source : Gartner
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