From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3141f12a6a7d0751 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-09 13:16:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C3CB31E.BC6FDBED@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Ada success story in IEEE Software References: <3c3aea7b$1@pull.gecm.com> <6fD_7.8548$cD4.15360@www.newsranger.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 21:16:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.86.204.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1010610975 209.86.204.164 (Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:16:15 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:16:15 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:16:17 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18709 Date: 2002-01-09T21:16:15+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article <3c3aea7b$1@pull.gecm.com>, Martin Dowie says... > > > >"Dale Stanbrough" 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. -- Jeff Carter "Death awaits you all, with nasty, big, pointy teeth!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail