Bugs Quote by Boris Beizer

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

— Edsger Dijkstra

“Dijkstra once said, “Testing shows the presence, not the absence, of bugs.” In other words, a program can be proven incorrect by a test,…

— Robert C. Martin

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

“Testing may convincingly demonstrate the presence of bugs, but can never demonstrate their absence."- Edsger W. Dijkstra, Computing Pioneer (1930–2002), "Programming as a discipline…

— Gerald M. Weinberg

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and…

— Tony Hoare

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

— Boris Beizer

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you…

— Will Wright

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.

— Eric Gill

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

— Boris Beizer

“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

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

— Paul Dickson