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Re:The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organization... by the_af on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:58AM (#21824830)
Maybe. The key takeaway of this for me is: if you want to introduce a bug-predicting metric, you must do better than simple LOC count. If you can't do better, then ditch your metric :)
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Re:The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organization... by MontyCarloHall on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:06AM (#21824904)
>if you want to introduce a bug-predicting metric, you must do better than simple LOC count

Agreed. As I pointed out in another post[0], a good candidate for this metric is the amount of unnecessary code, which is often a proxy for unnecessarily large/complex teams.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21824110

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