Reply to post: Its possible 100x may be an underestimate

Everyone cites that 'bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production' research, but the study might not even exist

DS999 Silver badge

Its possible 100x may be an underestimate

What's a "bug" during requirements stage? It is something where the requirements are found to be in error or missing something simple, and corrected before a single line of code is written. So the additional man hours of effort required to fix it is approximately nil. Any effort post-production will be infinitely more than that.

You may ask, what if something missing during requirements is caught but it adds 50 hours of work when you do get to coding? I'd argue leaving that out couldn't be classified as a "bug", because if you added it post-production you'd never call something like that a bugfix. You'd call it an enhancement or new feature. If you were doing the work for a customer you'd bill it as a change request.

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