20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilience and sunk cost fallacy

Re:20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilienc... by burnthrow on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:52PM (#25635141)

> finding that same bug 2 minutes after you wrote it (and before it got released) is massively quicker.

That's not realistic.

Your last paragraph about overwork seems unrelated to TDD dogma.

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Re:20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilienc... by marcus_holmes on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:17PM (#25638193)

That's because I was relating my personal experience building MVPs rather than spouting TDD dogma.

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Re:20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilienc... by imtringued on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:57AM (#25644210)

Tests cost money up front. Can you pay for those tests? You said you will pay for it in decreased costs once the business is running well.

Ok but how confident are you that your business will work out?

1%? you just increased your project costs 100 fold by doing tests.

50%? you just doubled your project costs by doing tests.

100%? Ok you are saving money, but if you are that confident then why haven't you gotten investors aboard that are convinced that doing it well from the start is a business edge?

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