Generating stats on regression bugs in bugzilla

[Austin English]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:
> I had a theory that we might be getting better at preventing regressions now
> than a year or so ago due to the expansion of things like AppDB and the test
> suite.  It'd be nice to have some sort of data though.
>
> Would it be reasonable to comb through the bugzilla database for all the
> bugs tagged regression and analyze them?  I'm interested in:
>
> 1) quantity and frequency of bugs tagged regression that were filed at
> various dates since the release of 1.0.  I'm not sure whether it's better to
> use the version number field in bugzilla as a proxy for "first version with
> regression" or to just guess that from the date.
> 2) how long regression bugs took to be fixed
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Ritchie
>
>
>

It'd be better to use the SHA1SUM of the bad patch, which will give
you the day the regression was added.

If the fix has the SHA1SUM listed in there as well, it's even easier for you.

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-Austin