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One bad fix?

One bad fix?

Posted Apr 28, 2009 18:18 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Firefox 3.0.10 released by danielpf
Parent article: Firefox 3.0.10 released

Bad fixes are a routine cause of bugs. In business developments, on average you can expect that 5-10% of your bug fixes will generate new bugs. Security fixes should pass a more intense inspection and test cycle, but still... Say that one of the last 100 security fixes has resulted in another bug; 1% of bad fixes would look like a desirable target even in security fixes, even if the fix isolated leaves a bad impression.

I guess what I'm saying can be resumed as: without more information it is hard to know how bad it is.


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