Bug Prediction at Google

[Robert Clipsham]

I just read this pretty interesting article on the Google Engineering 
Tools website, thought it might interest some people here:

http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/12/bug-prediction-at-google.html

( http://goo.gl/2O6YT <= a short link in case the above one gets wrapped)

It basically describes a new process in place at Google whereby each 
file within a project is assigned a rating saying how likely the given 
file is to have a bug in it compared to everything else. This can be 
used by code reviewers so they can take extra care when reviewing 
certain changes.

I really think github needs built in review tools (more advanced than 
just pull requests) to allow things like the auto-tester to be run, or 
algorithms like this to be used for manual review and so on.

-- 
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/