What Dan Luu thinks about software quality
Programmer who has worked on hardware verification at Centaur, on infrastructure at Microsoft and Google, and latterly at Wave. He writes long, data-heavy posts at danluu.com that test the software industry's folk wisdom against whatever evidence can actually be found.
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5 dated positions, 2014 to 2015, in their own words. Our reading of what Dan Luu has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThese studies also hammer home the point that conventional testing isn't sufficient.
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Their wordsAlmost every software project I've seen has a lot of low hanging testing fruit.
- 13 months earlier
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Their wordsIf I had to guess, I'd say I probably work around hundreds of bugs in an average week, and thousands in a bad week.
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Our readingHow much to test is an economic calculation a team should actually run, not a matter of principle.
Their wordsThe point isn't that you should definitely write more tests, it's that you should definitely do the math to see if you should write more tests.
- 11 days earlier
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Their wordsSo the intermediate result appears to not be that TypeScript is reliable, but that projects mis-identified as TypeScript are reliable.
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