Subj : Software defects
To   : James Byrnes
From : Mike Luther
Date : Mon Jan 28 2002 03:22 pm

Jim,

 JB> I was reading an article about buggy software in InfoWeek the other
 JB> day which stated that even an experienced programer introduced one
 JB> defect in every ten lines of code.  It went on to say that if 99% were
 JB> caught in testing that would still be 1000 errors in a million line
 JB> app.

 JB> I'm just hobbyist programmer but 1 in 10 seems awfully high to me. 
 JB> What do you real programmers think?

 JB> Regards,  Jim

Doesn't make any difference if you are a hobbiest or whatever!  The statment 
says X.  My suite has over 1,300,000 active lines of 3GL source in what I have 
to mess with.  I make more errors than anyone else I know in the game. If I had 
made 130,000 lines worth of errors there would be no way I could have ever done 
anything useful at all.  Of course that's another story anyway from a different 
perspective, grin.

On personal experience I don't believe that statement.


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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