On 1/17/2012 9:25 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Bennett Haselton > <benn...@peacefire.org> wrote: >> Pretty much all software testing is predicated on this notion -- that as >> you find and fix more bugs (of any kind, not just security bugs), >> eventually the mean time to find the next bug should get larger. >> Otherwise, what's the point, if at the end of all your testing and >> fixing, users keep running into bugs at the same frequency as before? > Look though the changelogs of any major application or the kernel > itself. See if it looks like the world is running out of bugs. >
Well if the software itself is constantly being modified in other ways (addition of new features) then of course you'll never run out of new bugs either :) But even for software where the features are frozen, bugs in a given category should eventually get harder to find, and/or should be less severe than at the beginning of the cycle (which seemed to be the case whenever I worked in testing). If this were not the case, then what would even be the point of doing any testing and bug-fixing at all? Unless you expect that eventually the remaining bugs become rarer or less severe. Bennett _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
