Re: burden of maintainance

[Przemysław Wojnowski]

> as the burden of maintainance was mentioned: from reading the
> bug-reports got the impression, a more strict test-regime might reduce
> that.
>
> If a bug shows up, the first question should be: how it could survive
> the tests?

+1

In previous project I joined a team that couldn't do any release in 4
years. I've introduced automated tests and refactoring among other
things and after 2 years we were releasing 4 times a year, with 3 times
less defects, found much sooner in release cycle and they were easier
to fix.

Some people here work in academia so maybe don't have such experiences,
but in software industry automated tests are a standard. Projects
without (or with weak) tests are replaced with those having strong
tests.