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October, November the Worst Months For Writing Buggy Code

Posted by Soulskill on from the blame-the-halloween-candy-coma dept.

chicksdaddy writes "Data from application testing firm Veracode suggests that the quality of application code submitted for auditing is pretty much constant throughout the year — except for the months of October and November, when the average density of vulnerabilities in the code jumps considerably. But why? Is it the pressure of deadlines? The stress of developers' lives (kids back to school, etc.)?"

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  1. Useless information - currently by willaien · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are there other jobs that have their job performance drop considerably during these two months?

    If not, what can be used to explain this anomaly? Bogus study? Something unique to programmers?

    Is it consistent throughout IT? Are there more reliability issues that can be traced to those months?