EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Matt Bishop
Organization : | University of California Davis
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 20.5.4.2
Page no. : | 5-9
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Comment : | Other requirements are irrelevant to threats. Consider the coding requirements of the standards, which include that source code “has no line of code exceeding 80 columns in width (including comments and tab expansions)” [7, Vol II §5.4.2 k]. This property does not appear to deal with any threat. It appears to deal with ease of testing, because code with lines of length 80 characters or less will fit on a single line on (almost) all printers and display devices, making the code easier to read. Clearly, this property speaks to code review, an aspect of testing.