Somewhat related: I enjoyed reading the eBook "The Leprechauns of Software Engineering" by Laurent Bossavit [1]. The author tried to track down the source resea

Somewhat related: I enjoyed reading the eBook "The Leprechauns of Software Engineering" by Laurent Bossavit [1]. The author tried to track down the source research behind various pieces of received wisdom. I remember that the claimed cost of fixing bugs at a later stage was one of them. [1]: https://leanpub.com/leprechauns https://leanpub.com/leprechauns