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the next reasoning study...

Posted Jul 10, 2003 9:41 UTC (Thu) by lyda (guest, #7429)
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i think what would be interesting for reasoning to do is track the bugs in a project in development - before and after reasoning feedback. so let's say they stick with apache. they test each version of the latest dev branch of apache and generate stats along with some nice summary stats (like average number of bugs fixed and introduced). at the same time they work with the apache developers and give them feedback on each version they release starting from now (or something like nightly/weekly builds).

the theory being is that reasoning's tools will reduce the bugs introduced between releases and increase the number of fixes.

pitting closed and open software against each other is amusing i suppose, but it would be of more interest to this developer to see the concrete benefits of reasoning in action. to date we've just seen snapshots, how does it benefit the flow of development?

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the next reasoning study...

Posted Jul 13, 2003 3:13 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

Right. Prior studies have shown that one salient difference between commercial and non-commercial software is that commercial software distributors tend not to fix bugs just because they become aware of them, whereas non-commercial distributors tend to do so.