Communication Quote by Kent Beck

“Therefore, alpha and beta testing are Product Development functions that belong to engineering. They are about validating the product technically, not the market.”

— Steven Gary Blank

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

— Eric S. Raymond

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

— Burt Rutan

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

— Gerald M. Weinberg

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and…

— Eric S. Raymond

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

“Everything you do in customer development is centered around testing hypotheses.”

— Cindy Alvarez

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

— Gerald M. Weinberg

When you're in a major market downturn, the beta eats the alpha.

— Jeffrey Gundlach

“Keeping yourself in “permanent beta” makes you acknowledge that you have bugs, that there’s more testing to do on yourself, and that you will…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

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

— Gerald M. Weinberg

“A test isn't really a test unless failing it truly tempts you...”

— Jessiqua Wittman