Editing Software testing (section)

== Economics ==

A study conducted by [[NIST]] in 2002 reported that software bugs cost the U.S. economy $59.5 billion annually. More than a third of this cost could be avoided if better software testing was performed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 2002 |title=The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infrastructure for Software Testing |url=https://www.nist.gov/director/planning/upload/report02-3.pdf |access-date=December 19, 2017 |publisher=[[National Institute of Standards and Technology]]}}</ref>{{Dubious|NIST study| date = September 2014}}

[[Outsourcing]] software testing because of costs is very common, with China, the Philippines, and India being preferred destinations.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}