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• A good threat is worth a thousand tests.
• If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.
• Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.
• Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.
• In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.
• Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that…
• First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which…
• Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance…
• Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not…
• A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.
• A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.
• More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

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