54 Quotes About Software-development
- Author Yegor Bugayenko
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The job of a tester is to prove that the software is bug free, while it has to be the other way around: The job of a tester is to prove that the software is broken. The better testers are doing their jobs, the more bugs they manage to find and report.
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- Author Boris Beizer
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Anything written by people has bugs. Not testing something is equivalent to asserting that it's bug-free. Programmers can't think of everything especially of all the possible interactions between features and between different pieces of software. We try to break software because that's the only practical way we know of to be confident about the product's fitness for use.
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- Author Yegor Bugayenko
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Quality is a product of a conflict between programmers and testers.
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- Author Yegor Bugayenko
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Automated testing is a safety net that protects the program from its programmers
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- Author Bernard Homes
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Tests are sometimes mistaken with quality assurance. These two notions are not identical: 1) quality assurance ensures that the organization's processes are implemented and applied correctly; 2) testing identifies defects and failures, and provides information on the software and the risks associated with their release to the market
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- Author Scott Rosenberg
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Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new. And then, of course, there is a corollary: The only software that's worth making is software that does something new.
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- Author Philippe Kruchten
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If it is not written down, it does not exist.
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- Author Steve McConnell
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A good estimate is an estimate that provides a clear enough view of the project reality to allow the project leadership to make good decisions about how to control the project to hit its targets.
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- Author Pearl Zhu
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Software quality begins with the quality of the requirements.
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