With a Good Continuous Testing Process, You Can Get “GOOD & CHEAP & FAST” in Software Development

Quality enhances Efficiency and saves Cost

Today I saw another post about “only can pick two out of GOOD, CHEAP, and FAST” in my LinkedIn feeds. This paradigm might be right for other industries, but it is not true for software development in most cases.

One of my colleagues, a cylcing lover and good agile project manger, once told me this: “for a bycycle, quality, light and price, you can only pick two”. I agree.

The software industry is quite different from the others. A top software developer’s productivity is far far higher than an average one. This comment was from a former Microsoft CIO and it was quoted in “The 8th Habit” book by Stephen Covey, who is one of the most respected business mentors at our time.

Mark Zuckerberg wrote the initial Facebook code in 2 weeks (see the interview)

Nathaniel Blecharczyk, a 24-year-old computer science student at Harvard, the third co-founder of Airbnb, built the first incarnation of Airbedandbreakfast.com practically single-handedly using Ruby…