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"defect" rate inversely proportional to prior scrutiny?

"defect" rate inversely proportional to prior scrutiny?

Posted Mar 8, 2006 12:32 UTC (Wed) by ramdyne (subscriber, #536)
In reply to: "defect" rate inversely proportional to prior scrutiny? by jabby
Parent article: Coverity releases first defect survey results

For ethereal the high level of security problems is directly related to the project focussing on code quality.

See http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200603/msg0013... and http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200603/msg0018... for the developers reaction to this article.

Andreas Sikkema


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"defect" rate inversely proportional to prior scrutiny?

Posted Mar 8, 2006 18:53 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

It seems they weren't entirely impressed, and perhaps rightly so. I should have left that last sentence out. Pre-coffee excuses and all that; I apologize.

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