| ??? 05/30/08 13:23 Read: times Msg Score: +1 +1 Good Answer/Helpful |
#155288 - Debugging time Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Erik Malund said:
Research states that you will spend more time debugging than writing code, The point of the research was to show that most current development processes are inefficient. If the code is properly designed, you should spend no more than 20% of your time debugging (10% is better). From A Discipline for Software Engineering by Watts S. Humphrey: "In reviews, you find the defects directly; in testing, however, you get only symptoms." The cost of defect removal increases as the project matures. Fixing bugs during design is cheap, fixing them by debugging completed code is expensive. |
