I don't know.  It seems all hell broke loose when beta 8 was released.  For
a while it looked like you might have to go back to beta 7.

Jim


"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
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> In article <425### [at] econymdemoncouk> , Mike Williams
> <mik### [at] nospamplease>  wrote:
>
> > When I did software testing for one of the UK high street banks we had a
> > theory about software bugs. We reckoned that the rate of fixing bugs in
> > a complex piece of software was approximately linear, but the rate of
> > finding new bugs decreases because there should be fewer bugs to find
> > (as long as the attempted bug fixes didn't introduce more new bugs as
> > side effects). By observing the way the number of known outstanding bugs
> > decreased over time, we considered it possible to estimate the probable
> > number of unknown bugs remaining in the system.
> >
> > So here's the numbers of outstanding confirmed bugs from the various
> > known bug lists.
> >
> >         Date            known bugs
> >         ----            ----------
> >         27 Sep          19
> >         28 Sep          16
> >          1 Oct          21
> >         23 Oct          25
> >          1 Nov          27
> >         21 Nov          38
> >         27 Nov          42
> >          2 Dec          37
> >         current         42      (list not yet published)
> >
> > We appear to be moving in the wrong direction.
> > (That never happened at the bank.)
>
> No, not at all.  It is just that the team isn't as fast fixing bugs as
they
> are reported.  However, the number of bug reports has actually decreased
> when you look at the same period of time.  For example, there had been
about
> 20 reports in the first three weeks, but only another 20 in the past six
> weeks.  So effectively the rate of new bugs found has slowed down.
>
> >         current         42      (list not yet published)
>
> Of course, you can't be sure that all those bugs hold up to an
> investigation.  Besides, some of the bugs in your list are scene/include
> file only...
>
>     Thorsten
>
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