"Tell your CFO that you can invest $1000 now to save $10000 of debugging later. You’d likely be scolded for not having applied that approach everywhere already."
A great way to put it! We need, as an industry, to get better at explaining it in these terms.
The order of magnitude seems right, I spent yesterday debugging why a system isn't working that was expected and believed to be. It's been broken for a while and not spotted for lack of a test.
that test would have taken hours to write, versus the debug time and impact of it being broken in production.
"Tell your CFO that you can invest $1000 now to save $10000 of debugging later. You’d likely be scolded for not having applied that approach everywhere already."
A great way to put it! We need, as an industry, to get better at explaining it in these terms.
I like making these metaphors but am constantly sceptical by the numbers. Do you think they are far off from realism?
The order of magnitude seems right, I spent yesterday debugging why a system isn't working that was expected and believed to be. It's been broken for a while and not spotted for lack of a test.
that test would have taken hours to write, versus the debug time and impact of it being broken in production.