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Critical bugs are a question of statistics. As the size of the code-base increases, the probability that there is a critical bug in it quickly approaches one. W
by coffeemug 16y ago
Critical bugs are a question of statistics. As the size of the code-base increases, the probability that there is a critical bug in it quickly approaches one. Who would dare say that millions of lines of core Oracle code do not have at least five obscure bugs that cause data loss in some situations?
- Aaronontheweb 16y agoThere's always going to be some edge case that escaped test coverage or some use case that totally escaped the imaginations of developers in any product. The chances of such an error being discovered is probably a function of the total number of active application instances and some rough measure of complexity in the application's implementation. So yeah, I'd say generally speaking you're right on.