Due to increased pressure for speed from leadership teams, the majority (60%) of organisations in Singapore have released software with untested code, up from 47% in 2025, according to Tricentis’ second annual Quality Transformation Report.
Damien Wong, senior vice president, APAC (Asia-Pacific &Japan) at Tricentis, said: “Singapore is moving quickly to invest and scale practical AI adoption, from AI-assisted software development to more autonomous, agentic systems. But as organisations build new AI capabilities, the research highlights a growing disconnect between organisations’ confidence in AI and their ability to consistently deliver high-quality software.”
Software quality
The study found a rapid enterprise-wide adoption of AI in Singapore, with 89% of organisations using three or more AI or automation tools across the software development lifecycle. Moreover, 84% of Singapore organisations trust AI agents to make software release readiness and decisions without human oversight.
The majority (82%) expressed preparedness to operationalise, govern, and scale AI agents and autonomous testing across the software development lifecycle. Some 32% said implementing AI agents in software development and testing is a top IT priority over the next 12 months, while 31% said reducing delivery risk and improving release confidence are important.
“As Singapore businesses deepen AI adoption, quality, governance and oversight must scale at the same pace,” Wong said.
The 2026 Quality Transformation Report is based on a survey of over 2,500 global CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, VPs of engineering, DevOps and quality assurance (QA) leaders, and software developers across various industries, including manufacturing, energy and utilities, retail, financial services, and the public sector. Of those surveyed, 500 respondents were based in Singapore.
