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Faults in Windows XP

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Research shows that there are about 5 faults per 1000 lines of code in carefully made programs, which means that 1 million lines of codes will have 5000 faults. Windows XP has approximately 45 million lines of code. How many faults does Windows XP have? A simple calculation shows that there are 45 x 5000 = 225,000 faults in Windows XP. Discuss the following questions: (1) Isn't it a miracle that the system operated at all with this number of faults? (2) Why not remove the faults?

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Software faults in Windows XP are discussed.

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(1) Isn't it a miracle that the system operated at all with this number of faults?
All software products have bugs unnoticed. This is because there is no way to prove correctness of software - testing can only show that there is a bug in software, but it cannot prove that there is no ...

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