Agreed, and that is the heart of it. - Someone fixing their own code fixes the codebase. Someone fixing someone else's code, generally only knows enough to mak

Agreed, and that is the heart of it. - Someone fixing their own code fixes the codebase. Someone fixing someone else's code, generally only knows enough to make a fix at a single point, to fix an observed bug. I think the abstract is just making statistical observations and hopefully in time will develop and test hypothesis that could create a theory. Anyway, they can use my hypothesis above and give it a whirl.