The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity

Re:The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organization... by 0x445442 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:15AM (#21825647)

Do you know if the paper controlled for all the variables in tandem. For example, I wouldn't think line count is necessarily mutually exclusive to modularization. That is to say, I'd expect well modularized code to reduce line count generally.

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Re:The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organization... by the_af on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:41PM (#21827259)

I found a video about the paper: the presenter claims the author of the paper (not the same person) did a double-barrelled correlation and that no metric had better predicting value than "simply doing wc -l on the source code".

See minute 39:30: https://vimeo.com/9270320

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Re:The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organization... by 0x445442 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:03PM (#21829947)

Thanks for finding that.

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Re:The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organization... by the_af on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:37AM (#21834752)

You're welcome. I've watched the whole video and it's pretty interesting. Not being Canadian or Australian I missed most of the jokes though :P

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Re:The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organization... by the_af on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:16AM (#21825664)

I think it did, that's the thing. Unfortunately since I cannot find the paper now, I can't tell you :(

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