On Gwe, 2003-08-22 at 17:22, John Ford wrote:
Does the Open Source community have any similar study/statistic?
Just curious.
We get peer review which helps spot breakages caused by fixes. I don't
have good stats on exact numbers. More importantly though Open Source
means *you* get to choose if
(on average) every three lines of code modified
to fix a bug introduces a new bug
Hmmm... when I was last involved in this (1983/4) the
ratio was one bug per ten lines of code. I leave observations
about what this means to others.
Rod
(on average) every three lines of code modified
to fix a bug introduces a new bug
This doesn't seem right.
Hmmm... when I was last involved in this (1983/4) the
ratio was one bug per ten lines of code. I leave observations
about what this means to others.
It may mean that APL is the best
Quote from a NG post by a Microsoft techie, explaining why a certain
bug will not be fixed in their .NET IDE:
Many people don't know this, but the software industry
has studied bugs and fixing bugs and has determined
that (on average) every three lines of code modified
to fix a bug
