Software Bug Fixing Cost. To fix a problem at the testing stage costs 100. Take a look at the infographic.
A 2003 study commissioned by the Department of Commerces National Institute of Standards and Technology found that software bugs cost the US economy 595 billion annually. According to the research of the IBM company the cost of software bugs removal increases in course of time. As you can see bugs and defects in software can be extremely costly to an organization to the level of 60 Billion US dollars a year.
Computer bugs or coding errors are a common phenomenon in the tech world as almost all software being developed has bugs.
Every day we hear such zero-days being discovered making it easy for hackers to hack into the system or your PC. Take a look at the infographic. For example one hour of developers work costs 25 and defect removal process at the stage of architectural planning takes 2 hours. Any software which has a bug since the start of its lifecycle and is discovered later is called a zero-day.