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Bugs can be differentBugs can be differentPosted Mar 6, 2006 20:36 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104)Parent article: Coverity releases first defect survey results Here's another way to look at that. If we check a detailed changelog for some software, e.g. Linux kernel, and select pure bugfixes done between previous and current releases, how many of them would Coverity find if run on the previous release? My guess is 10% at most, unless cleaning up and stabilizing the code was the main objective of the release. What users consider bugs is always not what software considers bugs. Therefore, judging code by computer-detectable bugs seems misleading to me.
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Bugs can be different Posted Mar 7, 2006 13:43 UTC (Tue) by brother_rat (subscriber, #1895) [Link] and conversely how many of the (genuine) bugs discovered by coverity would a human discover? The fact is humans and computers are good at different things, but compliment each other well.
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