True, but how would one discover those bugs in the first place? In commercial software a client might run into them and report them. But for science papers? Algorithms that go into production might work the same way, but analysis papers such as the OP is talking about don't.
Worse, with the attitude that the OP has, do you really think they will take extra time to verify the entire code base or look for bugs?
Often the best way to find errors in these sorts of analyses is to do a clean room implementation then figure out why the two programs don't produce the same results.
Worse, with the attitude that the OP has, do you really think they will take extra time to verify the entire code base or look for bugs?
Often the best way to find errors in these sorts of analyses is to do a clean room implementation then figure out why the two programs don't produce the same results.