Boundaries Quote by Brian Kernighan Download Open image “An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries” — Brian Kernighan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boundaries Code Exercise Natural Programming Tests Way
“Don't gloss over a routine or piece of code involved in the bug because you "know" it works. Prove it. Prove it in this… — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
“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
Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced. — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them. — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
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 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
A good test case is a test case that has a high probability of detecting an undiscovered error, not a test case that show… — Glenford Myers 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
Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience,… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable? — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess. — Brian Kernighan 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
“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
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image