Georg Wrede wrote: > Rainer Deyke wrote: >> A sample size of one doesn't mean much. In my experience, none of those >> four factors account for a significant amount of bugs, since all of them >> (except integer overflow) can be caught without too much effort through >> the copious use of assertions. > > Well, you got it backwards. > > Sample size one is your experience. > Sample size N is Unreal huge source, which has been written by N guys.
It's one anecdote versus another anecdote. Neither has a significant sample size. (And you're not examining the whole body of work created by those N programmers. You're examining one project.) -- Rainer Deyke - [email protected]
