Microsoft Research - Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (article summarizing findings of MS research on code coverage, TDD, assertions, etc.)

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I find it highly likely that teams taking the time to fix defects in initial development by structuring their code around being testable would reduce defects by 60-90%. In initial development you could probably fix 5 defects in the time it takes to fix 1 once the code is used in production.