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wendyshu on July 7, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Against Testing

You have to quote the cost too: "TDD teams spent 15–33% more time to write the code."

yencabulator on July 7, 2020 [–]

That's actually a surprisingly small bump.

The usual wisdom is that the later a problem is detected, the more it costs. 15-33% extra time for removing ~half defects very early is a great trade-off!

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