The average software development shop wastes a significant percentage of each development dollar on debugging, and on defects after release. The larger the project, the larger that percentage. The best practice of Test-Driven Development (TDD) can help you slash debugging and defects. How much would that save you?

Let's say that 50% of your annual development budget goes to debugging and defects, because that's what your programmers spend at least 50% of their time doing.

Let's say that by adopting TDD, you increased the amount of time spent writing tests to 25% of total programming time, but reduced debugging time to 5%. That leaves 70% for productive programmming. That's a 20% improvement. This is entirely feasible. TDD works that well. If your total budget was $1,000,000 per year, this would save you $200,000. If you spent $20,000 one time adopting TDD, you'd get that $20,000 back in less than two months.

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