http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/07/15/boston-roulette/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/07/15/boston-roulette/comment-page-1/#comment-10771 And Still I Persist » Blog Archive » The Big Dig Starts to Crumble Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:05:43 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/07/15/boston-roulette/#comment-10771 [...] UPDATE (7/15/06): The number of “bad bolts” keeps rising — not coincidently as inspectors are looking for them.  This is a classic pattern in software quality assurance, namely that a systematic testing of the application will cause the number of reported defects to rise until the application has been thoroughly tested, at which point the number of new defects found each (day, week, month) will level off and then start to decline. Hat tip to Blue Crab Boulevard. [...] [...] UPDATE (7/15/06): The number of “bad bolts” keeps rising — not coincidently as inspectors are looking for them.  This is a classic pattern in software quality assurance, namely that a systematic testing of the application will cause the number of reported defects to rise until the application has been thoroughly tested, at which point the number of new defects found each (day, week, month) will level off and then start to decline. Hat tip to Blue Crab Boulevard. [...]

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