Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.
First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineff… - Boris Beizer
First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineff…
- Boris Beizer
A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them. - Boris Beizer
A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.
Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity. - Boris Beizer
If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out. - Boris Beizer
If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.
Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication. - Boris Beizer
Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.
Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quali… - Boris Beizer
Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quali…
One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious. - Boris Beizer
One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.
A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed. - Boris Beizer
A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.
If the objective of testing were to prove that a program is free of bugs, then not only would testing be practically impossible, but it would also be… - Boris Beizer
If the objective of testing were to prove that a program is free of bugs, then not only would testing be practically impossible, but it would also be…
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