On Tuesday 15 July 2003 22:00, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:22:01PM -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> > IBM reports that they find two orders of magnitude more bugs in an OS
> > release within 30 days of a public release than in the /entire/
> > development QA period.  That observation doesn't really fit your
> > snapshot/beta/pre model.
>
> I'm gonna make the safe bet that IBM's data is based upon closed source
> operating systems where nobody except the few people IBM allows to beta
> test has access to the binaries let alone the source code to the OS.
> Cooker is a very different animal.  There will of course always be bugs
> after a release but to suggest that twice as many bugs are found after
> the release as during the development process is just not accurate in
> this case.
Not twice. two orders which i guess means 100 times more.


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