Quote: studied bug history of NAG library; bugs proportional to logarithm of complexity

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Directly or indirectly, several important studies have reported … [refs]. … [p. 92] Tim Hopkins and I studied [Symposium Software Tools, CSM, 1989] the internationally famous NAG Fortran scientific subroutine library … it has been through 15 releases over more … [and] it has a complete bug and maintenance … [The number of bugs was proportional to the logarithm of a routine's complexity. Hence] smaller components contain proportionately more bugs than … [p. 96] The most reliable systems may be those …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: smaller components have disproportionally more bugs; best may be 200-400 lines of code

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