> Just today, Medtronic CEO boasted that their ventilator uses 1 million lines of code. How much of this is the test code? Can requirements be traced to the cod

> Just today, Medtronic CEO boasted that their ventilator uses 1 million lines of code. How much of this is the test code? Can requirements be traced to the code and code to the requirements? I get that he's trying to make the point that the software is complex with his statement. But how much does that really matter? Code can be really complex in a single line. And if the line count does matter, how are they counting the lines of code? Lines used in dependencies and third party libraries would probably make up a good amount of the total code, which may or may not have been written by engineers at Medtronic. Maybe this is a pointless comment, but these kind of metrics irk me and remind me of my days at a major bank when they measured productivity by number of commits.