Bugs Quote by Boris Beizer

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

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

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

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

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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…

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A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

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

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

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

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

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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…

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Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

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

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