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Coverity Report Finds OSS Bug Density Down Since 2006

Posted by timothy on from the but-3333-is-a-cool-number dept.

eldavojohn writes "In 2008, static analysis company Coverity analyzed security issues in open source applications. Their recent study of 11.5 billion lines of open source code reveal that between 2006 and 2009 static analysis defect density is down in open source. The numbers say that open source defects have dropped from one in 3,333 lines of code to one in 4,000 lines of code. If you enter some basic information, you can get the complimentary report that has more analysis and puts three projects at the top tier in quality of the 280 open source projects: Samba, tor, OpenPAM, and Ruby. While Coverity has developed automated error checking for Linux, their static analysis seems to be indifferent toward open source."

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  1. Three? by Dhar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...puts three projects at the top tier in quality of the 280 open source projects: Samba, tor, OpenPAM, and Ruby."

    Counting, apparently, was low in quality.

    1. Re:Three? by akadruid · · Score: 5, Funny

      and then you get so-called slashdotphiles, who think they can hear artifacts in the lossy story compression.

      let's see how you fare in a double blind test

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      "Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything." (attrib. Joseph Stalin)
    2. Re:Three? by Ihmhi · · Score: 2, Funny

      I have gold-plated Ethernet cables, so my Internets sound nice and crisp. You can really hear the richness in the lower kbps range.

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      Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
  2. Oblig reference by StuartHankins · · Score: 4, Funny

    "... and puts three projects at the top tier in quality of the 280 open source projects: Samba, tor, OpenPAM, and Ruby."

    Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise....
    Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency....
    Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...
    and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....
    Our four... no...
    Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry...
    are such elements as fear, surprise...
    I'll come in again.

  3. Re:Wonder when MS, IBM and others will publish? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually, we did test our code here at Microsoft, we have 4200 defects by line of code, which is much better than the 4000 of open-source projects.

    wait a second...