50% of crashes caused by 1% of bugs
(Back in 2003 I ran a moderately popular tech blog on the Radio UserLand platform. This is an archived version of a post from that blog. You can view an index of all the archived posts.)
Tuesday, 8 July 2003
An interesting statistic: In Disruptive Programming Language Technologies, Todd Proebsting of the Programming Language Systems group at Microsoft Research notes:
Microsoft "Watson" experience: 50% of crashes caused by 1% of bugs.
[Slide 17]
There's some other interesting stuff in that presentation as well.
[Via Frank Mitchell's post in the comment thread at After Java and C# - what is next?.]