Two reasons tests help with reducing the cost of making changes:
First, the obvious one: automated tests catch bugs before they impact our customers. The earlier a bug is caught, the cheaper it is to fix.
Just think about how much time it takes you to fix a bug when junit tells you right there that you messed up, vs when a customer calls with a vague description "it doesn't work".
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