Programming Quote by Jeff Atwood

Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.

— Miguel de Icaza

“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

A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.

— 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

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

— 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

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people…

— Linus Torvalds

“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

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If…

— Brian Kernighan