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Linus's law — Wikipedia (en)

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In software development, Linus's law is the assertion that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". The law was formulated by Eric S. Raymond in his essay and book The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999), and was named in honor of Linus Torvalds. A more formal statement is: "Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone." Presenting the code to multiple developers with the purpose of reaching consensus about its acceptance is a simple form of software reviewing. Researchers and practitioners have repeatedly shown the effectiveness of reviewing processes in finding bugs and security issues.

Tema degli esploratori: ricerca e scienza aperta (deposito sistematico; ricerca «open peer review»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Linus's law» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law
Wikidata Q189286: «claim about software development that given a large developer base, bugs will be fixed quickly» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189286
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Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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