Testing & Quality

Linus's Law

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

debugging quality team

Named after Linus Torvalds and coined by Eric S. Raymond in The Cathedral and the Bazaar, this law argues that with enough reviewers, any bug will be obvious to someone.

Application

Caveats

Quantity of reviewers matters less than quality. A thousand casual glances are worth less than one expert audit.

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