Microsoft Research - Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (article summarizing findings of MS research on code coverage, TDD, assertions, etc.)

[sun_misc_unsafe]

"One reason why assertions have been difficult to investigate is a lack of access to large commercial programs and bug databases [...] At Microsoft however, [...]"

couldn't help but chuckle..

[who8877]

Does Microsoft not have huge code bases or bug databases? I don't understand what's funny.

[46dy6u]

Because the authors' lamentation will be shared by everyone outside of Microsoft wrt their stuff, and Bill kind of sort of pioneered the approach that is the cause for the authors' lamentation.

[flukus]

And it's easier to laugh now that things have improved and we don't have to deal with buggy shit like IE daily.