Fail early or fail faster

It is always better to avoid or prevent problems rather than solving them later in a situation where lot of things are at stake and the cost interms of price, reputation, and market scenario is much harder to deal with. The later in the software life cycle you correct a problem, the costlier it will prove to be. Failing early is significantly cheaper than failing later. Continuous Integration allows you to automatically fail software early. Adding extra tests through plugins or connected cloud services gives greater opportunity to face your issues early, improving quality and decreasing costs. Embrace acknowledging issues because you are saving time and money. Failing later in the project creates a situation of no point of return. Even in case of infrastructure provisioning, cloud computing has changed a scenario. Because of pay-as-you-go billing models...