Why doesn’t Flickr do automated tests?Assuming ceteris paribus, and also that the code was well-written by competent developers, which the Flickr folks surely are, a table like that sounds plausible: where A uses automated testing to find regressions and bugs, saving on the maintenance, B spends solely on maintenance, both with the same results (on that phase, at least). In A, the company has to spend money upfront in order to get the
