Bug Prediction at Google
Without considering the number of submits or file length you will end up with files that are simply longer and edited more getting undue high scores. A single 100 line file will be scored to be twice as buggy as the exact same code split into two 50 line files.<p>Considering source file lengths roughly follow a Zipfian type distribution, it seems like at least the top 5% length files would get flagged regardless unless the bug distribution is extremely uneven.