Understanding Quality Cost
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This article was developed from concepts in the book Global Software Test Automation: Discussion of Software Testing for Executives. Quality cost is the sum of all costs a company invests into the release of a quality product. When developing a software product, there are 4 types of quality costs: prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure …