There are countless documents, articles, presentations, whitepapers that use the graph where the cost of identifying and fixing a bug increases exponentially over time. Last year I read one whitepaper that had this graph, naively I thought it would be worth reading (since it had this graph)… how wrong was I? The whitepaper didn't say anything about finding defects early to reduce costs - nothing whatsoever! I felt that I'd lost half an hour of my life, I felt cheated; no joke; I take the testing profession seriously - even if I create testing cartoons!
Although they say time heals, I'm now really sceptical whenever I see the same graph pasted into yet another testing article.
great blog... I ve bookmarked it :)
ReplyDeleteReally such a amazing blog, I like it.
ReplyDeletenice cartoons elaborate testing methods.
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ReplyDeleteHi Andy,
ReplyDeleteI just replied to a colleague's blog post using one of your cartoons to illustrate my point.
http://blog.trustiv.co.uk/2013/04/tales-performance-testing-frontline-1
Are you OK with this, if I credit you as I've done?
I've hyper-linked the image back to this page and added a link to your blog.
All the best
Richard Bishop
Hi Richard, that's ok and thanks for checking.
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