Software Development Costs Pyramid

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Matt McCormick picture Matt McCormick · Nov 9, 2010 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

A friend was telling me the other day that there is a pyramid for the costs of fixing a problem in the software development life cycle. Where could I find this?

He was referring to the cost of fixing a problem.

For example,

To fix a problem at the requirements stage costs 1.

To fix a problem at the development stage costs 10.

To fix a problem at the testing stage costs 100

To fix a problem at the production stage costs 1000.

(These numbers are just examples)

I would be interested in seeing more about this if anyone has references.

Answer

Dave Anderson picture Dave Anderson · Nov 9, 2010

The Incredible Rate of Diminishing Returns of Fixing Software Bugs

Stefan Priebsh: OOP and Design Patterns: Codeworks DC in September 2009

(Stefan Priebsh: OOP and Design Patterns: Codeworks DC in September 2009)

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