Gartner Reveals 5 Trends That Will Make Software Engineering Faster, Greener

Gartner's top five strategic technology trends for software engineering in 2024 focus on enhancing productivity and sustainability. Gartner has unveiled its list of the top five strategic technology trends in software engineering for 2024 and beyond - trends that are interconnected, aiming to improve productivity hile fostering a greener environment.

According to a Gartner survey of 300 software engineering and application development team managers, meeting business objectives ranks among the top three performance goals for 65% of these leaders. Investing in disruptive technologies enables software engineering leaders to equip their teams to achieve objectives related to productivity, sustainability, and growth, Gartner stated.

All of these five technologies are really connected to one another," Joachim Herschmann, VP analyst at Gartner, told ITPro Today. "Everything is driven by this desire for more productivity, for more efficiencies."

                             

                                  

1. Software Engineering Intelligence
Gartner predicts that by 2027, 50% of software engineering organizations will be using software engineering intelligence platforms to measure and increase developer productivity, a significant increase from the 5% currently using such platforms.

2. AI-Augmented Development
According to the Gartner survey, 58% of respondents said their organization is using or plans to use generative AI over the next 12 months to control or reduce costs. There are many advantages to implementing AI into the software development lifecycle, including enhancing productivity and efficiency and enabling faster code generation by providing manual code-writing help.

3. Green Software Engineering
Gartner predicts that by 2027, 30% of large global enterprises will have adopted software sustainability requirements, up from less than 10% this year."It's good to see that there is more interest," Herschmann said. However, "at the end of the day, let's be honest — it's all about cost." That and public accountability. Organizations want to look good in their reports, he said.

4. Platform Engineering
Gartner also predicts that by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will establish platform engineering teams, up from 45% in 2022.Coding is just a small part of a developer's role. There are a lot of other things they need to do, such as keep the environment running, configuration work, and so on. So it makes sense to have a platform engineering team to take some of this work off developers' plates so they can focus on building the product, according to Herschmann.

5. Cloud Development Environments
Cloud development environments provide remote, ready-to-use access to a cloud-hosted development environment with minimal effort for setup and configuration.It used to take days and, in some cases, weeks to get new developers set up with the environments, the machines, and the approvals they needed. "The idea of these cloud development environments is that I can spin them up in a matter of 30 seconds," he said. "It's literally there. It's ready to run. I have access to everything I need, not just the development environment, but the documentation, the policies they're already built in. So I'm not wasting any time."

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