title: Which software development practices provide the highest ROI?
body: <p>The software development team in my organization (that develops API's - middleware) is gearing to adopt atleast one best practice at a time. The following are on the list:</p>
  
  <p>Unit Testing (in its real sense),
  Automated unit testing,
  Test Driven Design &amp; Development,
  Static code analysis,
  Continuous integration capabilities, etc..</p>
  
  <p>Can someone please point me to a study that shows which 'best' practices when adopted have a better ROI, and improves software quality faster. Is there a study out there?
  This should help me (support my claim to) prioritize the implementation of these practices.</p>