Figure 2 shows the environment that developers are operating in, for both their current and next projects. Not much has changed from last year's results to this year, which is a little surprising; I would expect last year's "next project" to be equal to (or at least near) this year's "current project," But that's obviously not the case.

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Michael Barr noticed that "UML adoption remains extremely low at 16%, with no expected upturn. This is disappointing after so many years of pushing by so many people and companies."

That takes us to the question, "Which software/hardware tools are your favorite/most important? This is seen in Figure 3. Here, as Barr points out, "UML tools are the favorite/most important tool for only 6% of respondents. In addition, source-code analysis remains woefully underutilized, especially in light of the risks of bugs in deployed systems and the value these tools provide in that regard. Source-code analysis tools are 'most important' for only 7% of the developers."

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