Debugging Quote by Boris Beizer Download Open image “Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.” — Boris Beizer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Debugging Failure Programmers Programming Prove Testing Vindication
“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 Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than… — Dale Turner Copy Share Image
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
“Software is like a science. We show correctness by failing to prove incorrectness, despite our best efforts.” — Robert C Martin 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
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
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the… — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
