ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the trade-offs between money and time, and demonstrates that examples where time investment has meant financial gain, and where lack of understanding of time has negated or even negatively affected a company’s finances. Physical infrastructure needs include buying and setting up the server and client system and networking equipment. It may also involve internal or external hosting considerations plus the adequate securing of these resources. During economically challenging times, many organizations opt to soldier on using tools already in place and machines that are already at work in their current state. Testing tools range from free, open source options all the way to very expensive proprietary commercial systems. The cost of testing is real; there is always a price non-technical executives have to pay if they want to improve the quality of the software. Sometimes that cost is in dollars, sometimes that cost is in hours, days, weeks, or months.
