Programming Quotes by Boris Beizer

If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

— Boris Beizer

Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.

— Boris Beizer

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

— Boris Beizer

Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify…

— Boris Beizer

A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

— Boris Beizer

If the objective of testing were to prove that a program is free of bugs, then not only would testing be practically impossible, but…

— Boris Beizer

Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

— Boris Beizer

First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods…

— Boris Beizer

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

— Boris Beizer

In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

— Boris Beizer

One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's…

— Boris Beizer

Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

— Boris Beizer