A purveyor of static code analysis wished to pitch his product to Samsung. What better way, he thought, than to run his product against the Samsung Tizen operating system, and demonstrate the results. The demonstration fell through, and the purveyor decided instead to publish his findings.

The purveyor is Andrey Karpov, CTO at “Program Verification Systems” Co Ltd and one of the developers of PVS-Studio. In a report published Wednesday, he claims that PVS-Studio would find 27,000 coding errors in Tizen. He actually checked only 3.3% of the code; but finding about 900 errors, he believes that would extrapolate to 27,000.