[aklug] code quality of open source projects

From: Stanley Long <slong@acsalaska.net>
Date: Wed Sep 23 2009 - 12:59:02 AKDT

COVERITY, which offers software integrity scanning services, released
its latest report on open source projects' code quality today.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1555941/coverity-reports-scan-results

In 2006 the scan found roughly one defect per 3,333 lines of code, ...
this year ... approximately one defect per 4,000 lines of code.

  ... NULL pointer deferences, which appeared in almost a third of all
programs, resource leaks, and unintentionally ignored expressions.
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