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Riddle me this:
While calculating software reliability in number of faults per million line of code, would the software become more reliable if the number of lines are increased instead of errors reduced 🤔

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  • 1
    Mathematically, yes.
  • 14
    That's why curly braces on a new line is a reliability feature.
  • 0
    Same with IQ. you get stupider as you grow older.
    Using "foobar per lines of code" is a bad estimate technique.
    One of the QA managers I worked with set himself a goal - less the 3% of bugs should be found by the users. he then proceded to open a huge number of bugs to tilt the statistic in his favor...
  • 0
    @magicMirror Is it really a bug if it's never found by a user? 😎
  • 0
    If the increased lines of code are tests. Yet again, the tests can also have faults
  • 1
    @Kifflom Yes. Users will avoid some things QA finds. mostly because they will never shake thier phones so much.
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    @Kifflom "it's not a bug, it's a feature"
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    It only increases reliability if the number of errors stays the same.
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