Archive for October 9th, 2005

How many bugs will be in Microsoft’s Windows Vista?

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

I was reading an article, on the Embedded Systems Design web site, titled “Big Code”.  The author, Jack Ganssle, talks about the estimated number of lines of code (LOC) in the upcoming Microsoft Windows Vista as being around 50 million.  At a 5% bug rate, this would yield a total bug count of 2.5 million bugs.  […]

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