Programming Quote by Steve McConnell

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

— Gerald M. Weinberg

“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

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

— Steve McConnell

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

— Boris Beizer

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

“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

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

— Gerald M. Weinberg

“In general, the longer you wait before fixing a bug, the costlier (in time and money) it is to fix.”

— Joel Spolsky

“Usability testing is useful, necessary, and inefficient.”

— Jeff Johnson

“I have two complaints about the above tests. The first is that executing them manually is about as exciting as watching a banana rot,…

— Alan Page

“If you wanted your bug fixed, you should really check it in depth.”

— Cory Doctorow

“if you fix a bug, sometimes there’s no guarantee won't bring up another bug”

— Aditia Rinaldi