Programming Quote by Steve McConnell

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

— Steve McConnell

“The chance of introducing a defect into your program is proportional to the size of the changes you make to it.”

— Max Kanat-Alexander

“code reading detected about 80 percent more faults per hour than testing”

— Steve McConnell

About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

— Barry Boehm

“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

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about…

— Fernando J. Corbato

“defect corrections have more than a 50 percent chance of being wrong the first time”

— Steve McConnell

“Eighty percent of the errors are found in 20 percent of a project's classes or routines”

— Steve McConnell

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

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

— Martin Fowler

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

We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of the project…

— Glenford Myers