Black, president and principal consultant of RBCS, emphasized the cost-effectiveness of creating quality software. “The money you spend to build it right the first time is always less than the money it costs to fix it,” he said.

He listed four ways testing saves money: Finding bugs that get fixed, finding bugs that don’t get fixed, running tests that mitigate risks and guiding the project to success through timely, accurate, credible information for project tracking.

This article explains it very well the Return of Investment on testing early in the software development lifecycle.

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