[dfabulich]

> "No crashes/panics/uncaught exceptions" should be worth it.

Surprisingly, no. Property-based testing and formal validation make it easy to spend tons of time and money "preventing" bugs that would never have occurred in production, especially uncaught exceptions.

There is code where strong guarantees can be worth it, (databases, platforms/operating systems, parsers accepting hostile input) but it's not most application-level code, and certainly not most e-commerce CRUD apps.

Remember, we're here to make users' lives better, not to write correct code for its own sake.

[derdi]

One problem with the "won't happen in production" argument is that humans are demonstrably bad at predicting "won't happen in production" situations.