[Python-Dev] Coverity Scan Spotlight Python

[Tres Seaver]

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On 08/29/2013 07:24 PM, Sturla Molden wrote:
> 
> Do the numbers add up?
> 
> .005 defects in 1,000 lines of code is one defect in every 200,000
> lines of code.
> 
> However they also claim that "to date, the Coverity Scan service has 
> analyzed nearly 400,000 lines of Python code and identified 996 new 
> defects – 860 of which have been fixed by the Python community."


FWIW:  David Wheeler's 'sloccount' reports 800,489 lines of code in the
Python 3.3.1 tarball, of which 403,266 lines are Python code, and 368,474
are ANSI C.  That defect rate would imply 4 open defects in Python itself.



Tres.
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