On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > How does the code quality compare between open source and proprietary >> > software? >> > Open source code - 0.69 defects / 1000 lines code >> >> Excuse me. IT should be 0%. >> It means that open source community is "passable" or IOW is worse >> >> > Is it practically possible to have 0 defects in a project with a million > lines of code with contributors from around the world?
IMO, no. In my past life (mid 1980s), I worked at one of the world's largest Telecom manufacturer. The code review and walk throughs were intense, internal QA hammered the code and yet there were field reported bugs. > I thought it is > awesome that open source development spread around the world can reach a > defect density of 0.69/1000 compared to 0.68/1000 for proprietary software. > In fact the article says that Linux is the benchmark for quality at a > defect density of 0.59/1000 for 7.6 million lines of code. > These are great numbers. Thanks for sharing the article. -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान) _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
