Deja vu.
The first time I saw the *real* relationship between software reliability, cost of change and lead times was 30 years ago.
And we only collected that data because *I* didn't believe it.
As test assurance went *up* and the code became more modular (not unrelated), bug counts and cost of change went *down*.
We went from struggling to put together release candidates once a quarter to producing them almost every weeknight.
Jason Gorman
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2025-11-30 13:52:14 UTC
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