Re: Software Quality in Science

["(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 10/02/2010 13:13, in article 87fx59p725.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de, "Florian
Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:

> * Robert A. Duff:
> 
>>> ...The net result of changing languages appears
>>> to be that the overall defect density appears to be about the same,
>>> (Hatton 1997). In other words, when a language corrects one
>>> deficiency, it appears to add one of its own."
>> 
>> That assertion requires evidence, and I don't see it here!
> 
> (Hatton 1997) is here: <http://www.leshatton.org/IEEE_Soft_97b.html>
> For Ada, it cites Compton & Withrow, "Improving Productivity: Using
> Metrics to Predict and Control Defects in Ada Software", in "Second
> Annual Oregon Workshop on Software Metrics", Oregon 1990.  It then
> concludes that language choice had no impact on fault density
> patterns.  Of course, the evidence is only anecdotal.

But surely this is comprehensively falsified by Rational's carefully
controlled study?

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Bill Findlay
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