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		bb88 on Jan 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 ... It depends. 1% of 10000 is 100. .01% is 1. If someone came up to me and said, "Hey I can save you 99% of expected costs with 1% of your profit.", I might go for it.

dilyevsky on Jan 9, 2024 [–]

Which is what i said in second part of my comment. For most software businesses the cost of shipping a bug is trivial and/or poorly measured so due to McNamara fallacy it is readily exchanged for well measured cost of having a functioning qa team

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