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> The disadvantage of feature branching is that it's very easy for management to cut costs on testing.

Have to agree with this. In a large (lower than 2/3rd in the Fortune 500 list) company with cost cutting as a constant mantra, our ever shrinking team hasn’t had a testing/QA team for several years. We never got to automating a lot of tests either. The developers create something and test it manually as per their limited knowledge. Then it’s the end users who do the bulk of the testing.