The number of bugs is inversely proportional to the scale of expected usage of a tool.
- The number of bugs is inversely proportional to the scale of expected usage of a tool.
- Imagine each time someone runs into a given bug, there's some chance they report the bug or fix it.
- If there are billions of users swarming over a piece of software, the chance that any given bug has been found and fixed is much higher.
- This means that software that is single use might have more bugs.
- Some bugs will be obvious, but some bugs will be less obvious, especially to non-programmers.