Re: ANNOUNCE: Ada success story in IEEE Software

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <3c3aea7b$1@pull.gecm.com>, Martin Dowie says...
> >
> >"Dale Stanbrough" <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> >news:dstanbro-FFA1D2.23113708012002@mec2.bigpond.net.au...
> >> Rod Chapman wrote:
> >>
> >> > factor in the success of the project.  The final system achieved
> >> > 0.04 defects per kloc (that's 4 defects in 100,000 lines of code) post-
> >> > delivery, which compares favourably with industry norms.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure I follow this. If this result is the industry norm,
> ..
> >He said it "compares favourably with industry norms" not "matches the
> >industry norms"
> 
> I suspect that may have been a bit of that famous British understatement too. I
> think our last (non safety-critical) Ada project would have had a defect count
> orders of magnitude higher than that.

I recall seeing the "industry norm" given as 1 defect per kloc.

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Jeff Carter
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