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From: jgautier@vangogh.ads.com (Jorge Gautier)
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Subject: Re: Software Quality
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Date: 19 Mar 91 23:56:32 GMT
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In-Reply-To: gwharvey@lescsse.uucp's message of 18 Mar 91 04:42:46 GMT

In article <gwharvey.669271366@node_25b73> gwharvey@lescsse.uucp (Greg Harvey) writes:
>   On the other hand...
>
>   Now, class, let's review what happens when U.S. software has 35 defects per 100 lines
>   of code and <Place country name here> software has 0.1 defects per 100 lines of code.

Here's a perfect example of a silly application of metrics.  What does
"defects per line of code" mean?  It depends on how you count, doesn't
it?  Show these numbers to someone who doesn't know anything about
software and they will conclude that U.S. software is of lower quality
than the unnamed country's.  Is that a valid conclusion?
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