AWS BugBust is the world’s first global competition for developers to collectively eliminate one million software bugs and an estimated* $100 million in technical debt for their organizations.
*"Estimated dollar savings are calculated by converting points awarded for a bug fix to a dollar equivalent as follows, based on the Systems Science Institute at IBM’s findings that it can cost up to 100 times more to fix a bug, depending on how far in the software lifecycle development the bug is identified, than during the initial design phase (International Journal Of Engineering And Computer Science, Study of Software Quality and Risk Estimation and Quality Cost Analysis using Empirical Study, July 2015):
Point Value |
Dollar Equivalent |
1 |
$769 |
3 |
$2,308 |
5 |
$3,846 |
8 |
$6,154 |
13 |
$10,000 |
For information on how points are awarded, see the Official Rules. Actual savings may vary.”