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Sunday, 24 July 2005

Bugs can be extremely expensive to fix

Posted on 23:51 by Unknown
From my IBM days I recall an estimate that to fix an error -- in hardware, software, documentation, or just about anything else -- after it has been delivered and deployed can cost anything from 10 to 100 times as much as it would if the error had been detected and corrected during the original design/development/test phase.

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