Errata for the 2025 DORA Report
This page lists errors and corrections to the 2025 State of AI-assisted Software Development report. To track revisions, report PDFs are stamped with a version number. The initial version of the 2025 report is v.2025.1.
Errata in v.2025.1
p. 9 There is an extra “deployments” in “This shift helped enable 136,000 deployments deployments per day in 2015”
p. 20 Figure 12: Distribution of deployment frequency responses from the 2025 DORA Survey. The deployment frequency in the second row should be “Between once per month and once every six months”.
p. 44 Figure 29: Estimated effect of AI adoption score scaled on key outcomes. “Existential oonnection” on the Y-axis should be “Existential connection”
p. 46 Figure 30: Ownership. The figure does not have a key explaining the meaning of the colors.
- Light blue
is No AI. - Dark purple
is AI.
p. 52 Figure 34 has an incorrect title and caption.
- The correct title is “A clear and communicated AI stance moderates AI’s impact on software delivery throughput”
- The correct caption is “Figure 34: A clear and communicated AI stance moderates AI’s impact on software delivery throughput”
p. 57 Figure 38 has an incorrect title and caption.
- The correct title is “Version control commit frequency moderates AI’s impact on individual effectiveness”
- The correct caption is “Figure 38: Version control commit frequency moderates AI’s impact on individual effectiveness”
p. 97 Footnote 1 should link to https://dora.dev/research/2025/questions.
p. 100 “He has studied the deployment of intelligent technologies since 2011.” has an unnecessary space at the beginning of the sentence.
p. 107 Figure 61: Programming language usage. There are a few errors in the list of programming languages:
- The list includes two entries for “C”. The first should be “C#” (18.5%) and the second should be “C” (3.9%).
- It lists “C+” as a language. It should be “C++” (14.5%).
p. 115 The description for one of the core analysis variables, ai_adoption, is incorrect. It should state: “ai_adoption = a factor made of three indicators”.