Eric Sink has a great post about the realities of fixing bugs. Bottom line: every bug has both a benefit and a cost, and you’d best make sure that the benefit of fixing a bug outweighs the cost of doing so. Eric’s got lots more about how to derive the numbers to plug into that formula.
Published December 5, 2005 in Archives
The Economics of Bug-fixing
Eric Sink has a great post about the realities of fixing bugs. Bottom line: every bug has both a benefit and a cost, and you’d best make sure that the benefit of fixing a bug outweighs the cost of doing so.