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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no 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: 2002-01-08 06:20:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!upp1.onvoy!onvoy.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3c3aea7b$1@pull.gecm.com> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Ada success story in IEEE Software Message-ID: <6fD_7.8548$cD4.15360@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 09:20:50 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 14:20:50 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18643 Date: 2002-01-08T14:20:50+00:00 List-Id: 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.