Code quality Quote by James A. Whittaker

“It appears evident that, for the average team, insisting on writing tests first, before functional coding, improves quality.”

— David J. Anderson

“Testing does not improve a product; the improving is done by people fixing the bugs that testing has uncovered.”

— Gerald M. Weinberg

“Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong.”

— Gerald M. Weinberg

“When it comes to skills, quantity often beats quality.”

— Scott Adams

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

— James Dyson

“Good testing involves balancing the need to mitigate risk against the risk of trying to gather too much information.”

— Gerald M. Weinberg

“Mature testing organizations tend to have five dirty tests for every clean test.”

— Steve McConnell

“Having tests are good. Having tests for the sake of writing tests just to use a specific testing tool is useless.”

— Chris Hartjes

“Immature testing organizations tend to have about five clean tests for every dirty test.”

— Steve McConnell

“Not only should you be testing your project as you create it, you must most seriously test your creation as it begins to resemble…

— Ryan Holiday

“Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you…

— Steve McConnell

“developer testing should probably take 8 to 25 percent of the total project time.”

— Steve McConnell