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Re:Measuring Software Complexity: What Metrics to Use? by pfdietz on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:35AM (#29370249)
There were attempts to predict bugs by looking at complexity metrics. As I recall, the research found that when you adjusted for code size, none of the metrics mattered. In other words, just use LOCs as your metric.
Re:Measuring Software Complexity: What Metrics to Use? by kqr on Sunday November 28, 2021 @04:18PM (#29373146)
Re:Measuring Software Complexity: What Metrics to Use? by marcosdumay on Sunday November 28, 2021 @01:20PM (#29371340)
AFAIK the one unambiguously relevant metric for how many bugs you will find in a codebase is how many its "clients" define as acceptable.

Any kind of internal code quality affects the productivity of the debugging procedure, not the final number of bugs.