Quote by Kent Beck

Development is maintenance.

— Brian Marick

“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

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

— Miguel de Icaza

Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.

— Andy Grove

“This includes the creation of automated build, integration, and test processes so that we can immediately detect when a change has been introduced that…

— Gene Kim

When you're limited on parts and you have reliability issues, you don't get the testing done. You need to really develop the car.

— Rubens Barrichello

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

— Koichi Tanaka

“Most testers I’ve known are perverse enough that if you tell them the “happy path” through the application, that’s the last thing they’ll do.…

— Michael T. Nygard

Failed weapons tests are necessary components of the weapons development process.

— Will Hurd

A very important part of game development is testing - something that a lot of developers don't do.

— Randy Pitchford

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

— Burt Rutan

“More testing should be done automatically. It's important to note that by "automatically" we meant that the test /results/ are interpreted automatically as well.”

— Andrew Hunt