Quote by Alan Page

“To have humans executing tests that should be automated is a waste of human potential.”

— Gene Kim

“we just don't have the time to go chasing after bugs that the automated tests could have found for us. We have to spend…

— Andrew Hunt

“Having tests are good. Having tests for the sake of writing tests just to use a specific testing tool is useless.”

— Chris Hartjes

“it's done by creating 25 times as many dirty tests”

— Steve McConnell

“Tests that take too long to run end up not being run.”

— Michael Feathers

“Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong.”

— Gerald M. Weinberg

“More testing should be done automatically. It's important to note that by "automatically" we meant that the test /results/ are interpreted automatically as well.”

— Andrew Hunt

“the error rate in manual testing is comparable to the bug rate in the code being tested.”

— Steve McConnell

“Testing does not improve a product; the improving is done by people fixing the bugs that testing has uncovered.”

— Gerald M. Weinberg

A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.

— Boris Beizer

“A test isn't really a test unless failing it truly tempts you...”

— Jessiqua Wittman

One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

— Wernher von Braun