Increasing Your Return on Investment

The most common (and EXPENSIVE) mistake software developers make is trying to cut corners during the early stages of the software development life cycle. As the chart below demonstrates, if quality is not built in at the beginning of your project, the amount it costs you to fix any errors discovered grows significantly the later these defects go undetected. For example, if a defect costs $1,000 to fix in unit testing, that same defect will cost 10-to-30 times more to repair if found during integration testing.

In fact, 80 percent of all software errors arise during the beginning stages of the product life cycle (in the analysis and design planning phases) - and half of those errors are omissions that are found more readily by human inspections than by a machine.

This means that the testing effort ideally should begin early in the software development life cycle. Taking the time to formally define requirements at the beginning of the project and managing changes to the requirements will save you time and money (and headaches) later on.

BenchmarkQA and its team of experienced professionals can assist you in implementing a solid quality assurance approach no matter where you are in the planning or implementation process. With more than 20 years in the quality assurance and testing industry, BenchmarkQA will help you meet your software development goals, such as reduced time-to-market, decreased product defects and increased customer/user satisfaction.

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Credit: Boehm, B. Software Engineering Economics, Prentice Hall, 1981

Download the Testing and the Life Cycle Chart (PDF).