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

By: Christophe Lauer [MS]

Christophe Lauer [MS] — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:20:59 +0000

This calculation assumes that the estimated 50+ million LOC are being written from scratch, which is not the case in Vista, as it will benefit from a large Windows code-base which has been worked on and debugged years after years.

To me, this calculation makes no sense.

Regards,
/CL

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:39:59 +0000

bert, Where did you get your information that only 10% of Vista is hand-written code?

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:41:55 +0000

[quote]This calculation makes no sense, a lot of code is generated, maybe 10% is human-written. [/quote]

My question then is, who wrote the generator?

At one time or another it all comes down to 100% human input.

By: bert verhees

bert verhees — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:22:55 +0000

This calculation makes no sense, a lot of code is generated, maybe 10% is human-written.

By: Oliver Townshend

Oliver Townshend — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:08:26 +0000

How many lines is Delphi? And can you see where this question is leading? Do Borland keep track of metrics like this for their own internal usage?

By: Richard Relos

Richard Relos — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:28:08 +0000

CMMI, in my humble opinion, is just a certificate that says, "hey! we are a matured company". CMMI is about process and process in no way will directly influence the reduction of bugs (Murphy’s Law). Optimizing companies tend to be vastly smaller than MS. Products of these companies are also vastly smaller than any of MS offerings, hence, lesser bugs.