What are the rework costs in your software development project?

“Rework in software development is the additional effort of redoing a process or activity that was incorrectly implemented in the first instance or due to changes in requirements from clients [2]. It usually results from errors, omissions, failures, changes, poor communications and poor coordination”

This is the first paragraph of a study that I was reading about reworking costs in software development projects. I would recommend having a read of the whole study. The link is here: https://airccse.org/journal/ijsea/papers/6515ijsea02.pdf

I feel these types of research studies are important to help us articulate the value that we have as software testers. Perhaps we could start sharing studies like this with our teams when we get asked “How are we adding value?”.