Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected. — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out. — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication. — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known. — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them. — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you. — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
