# Trends: Can we see stats?

**URL:** <https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/trends-can-we-see-stats/78002>\
**Category:** Discussions\
**Tags:** tools, trends\
**Created:** [26 July 2024 13:49 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/trends-can-we-see-stats/78002 "2024-07-26T13:49:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![bethtesterleeds](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/bethtesterleeds/32/7371_2.png) [@bethtesterleeds](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/bethtesterleeds)\
**Post date:** [26 July 2024 13:49 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/trends-can-we-see-stats/78002/1 "2024-07-26T13:49:20Z")

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Really liked @jesper’s piece on tooling trends:-

> **[What testing tools are in your current tech stack?](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/testing-trends/what-testing-tools-are-in-your-current-tech-stack)**
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> Ministry of Testing surveyed the community to get an up-to-date reading of the testing trade's tools.

I wondered, would it be possible to see the numbers behind the figures to support an argument for their use e.g. we could add a stat to a POC research to say X number of respondents in Y with team sizes of Z are using tool abc?

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**Author:** ![jesper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/jesper/32/8341_2.png) [@jesper](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/jesper)\
**Post date:** [26 July 2024 17:14 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/trends-can-we-see-stats/78002/2 "2024-07-26T17:14:55Z")

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Thank you, Beth,

Unfortunately, we don’t have that much detail in the surveys so far. One of the starting points for the analysis was this thread:

> [@What tools are in your testing stack?](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-are-in-your-testing-stack/76313):
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> What testing tools are in your current tech stack? Are there any that are a specific requirement for your job?

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**Author:** ![bethtesterleeds](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/bethtesterleeds/32/7371_2.png) [@bethtesterleeds](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/bethtesterleeds)\
**Post date:** [26 July 2024 17:34 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/trends-can-we-see-stats/78002/3 "2024-07-26T17:34:10Z")

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Thanks @jesper - hopefully its the sort of experiment that can be repeated at scale with the anonymised data exposed for querying (a powerBi dashboard or something would be next level).

I’ve been a fan of practitests state of testing annual report for years now, but they don’t publish their data so its hard to form a clear conclusions or write a persuasive argument on why we should rely on the data in there.