stability

[Derek Parnell]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:26:15 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:

 
> A bug list is a great way to organize and manage what to do next on the 
> product. It is *terrible* as a numeric measure of quality.

Agreed. The absolute number of (known) bugs is not a relevant measure. I
find that a better measure of stability is the changes in the bug count,
and that only in an environment in which there is no penalty or reward for
creating and/or finding bugs. In this case if there is a trend of reducing
bug counts for a product, it more likely to be a stable one. Also, the
relative size of the delta (increase or decrease) in bug counts after a new
release is also indicative of quality, but nothing is absolute.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
28/02/2008 12:43:57 PM