Software Testing Quotes

You can let all the different types of testing scare you out of your pants or you can look at the funny side of testing. These quotes could be a starting point...

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1. • Installation testing
   • Compatibility testing
   • Smoke and sanity testing
   • Regression testing
   • Acceptance testing
   • Alpha testing
   • Beta testing
   • Functional vs non-functional testing
   • Destructive testing
   • Software performance testing
   • Usability testing
   • Accessibility testing
   • Security testing
   • Internationalization and localization
   • Development testing
   • A/B testing
   • Concurrent testing
   • Conformance testing or type testing
   Testing is a complicated beast. But it can also be fun
   

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2. The starting point for
   improvement is to recognize the
   need.
   

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3. Focus on lower costs often
   leads to lower quality. Focus on
   higher quality always leads to
   lower costs.
   

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4. A relatively small number of
   causes will typically produce a
   large majority of the problems or
   defects.
   

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5. Always code as if the guy who
   ends up maintaining your code
   will be a violent psychopath who
   knows where you live.
   Martin Golding
   

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6. A program which does not work
   is undoubtedly wrong, but a
   program which does work is not
   necessarily right.
   

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7. Programming is like sex: a
   single mistake leads to
   providing support for a lifetime.
   

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8. All code is guilty, until proven
   innocent.
   

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9. If debugging is the process of
   removing bugs, then
   programming must be the
   process of putting them in.
   Edsger Dijkstra
   

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10. Software and cathedrals are
    much the same: first we build
    them, then we pray.
    

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11. Absence of evidence is not
    evidence of absence.
    

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12. Debugging is twice as hard as
    writing the code in the first place.
    Therefore, if you write the code as
    cleverly as possible, you are, by
    definition, not smart enough to
    debug it.
    Brian W. Kernighan
    

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13. Everything human is at least a
    little bit broken.
    

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14. Testing is organised skepticism.
    

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15. Trying to improve software
    quality by increasing the amount
    of testing is like trying to lose
    weight by weighing yourself
    more often.
    

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16. 3 Biggest Software Lies:
    •The program’s fully tested and
    bug-free
    •We’re working on the
    documentation
    •Of course we can modify it
    

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17. Quality means to also do things
    right when no one is looking.
    

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18. Where is the ‘any’ key?”
    (Homer Simpson, trying to figure
    out the “Press any key”
    notification)
    

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19. Quality represents the wise
    choice of many alternatives.
    

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20. When debugging, novices insert
    corrective code; experts remove
    defective code.
    Richard Pattis
    

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21. If you don’t like testing your
    product, most likely your
    customers won’t like to test it
    either.
    

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22. Quality is remembered long after
    the price is forgotten.
    

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23. Program testing can be a very
    effective way to show the
    presence of bugs, but is
    hopelessly inadequate for
    showing their absence.
    Edsger Dijkstra
    

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24. Software testing is the art of
    trying to increase confidence in
    a product by pointing out
    everything that is wrong with it.
    

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25. f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n
    sftwr tstng.
    

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26. If automation processes had
    been flawless, they would have
    been called "automagic".
    

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27. With good program architecture
    debugging is a breeze,
    because bugs will be where
    they should be.
    David May
    

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28. The bitterness of poor quality
    remains long after the
    sweetness of meeting the
    schedule has been forgotten.
    

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29. Fundamentally you can’t do your
    own QA, it’s a question of seeing
    you own blind spots.
    

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30. Software testers do not make
    software; they only make them
    better.
    

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31. If you automate a mess, you get
    an automated mess.
    

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32. The trouble with programmers
    is that you can never tell what
    a programmer is doing until it’s
    too late.
    Seymour Cray
    

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33. Fast, good, cheap: pick any
    two.
    

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34. If you don’t care about quality,
    you can meet any other
    requirement.
    

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35. One of my most productive
    days was throwing away 1000
    lines of code.
    

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36. Measuring programming
    progress by lines of code is
    like measuring aircraft building
    progress by weight.
    

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37. If you don’t care about quality,
    you can meet any requirement.
    

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38. Bad programmers have all the
    answers.
    Good testers have all the
    questions.
    

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39. Why do we never have time to
    do it right, but always have time
    to do it over?
    Murphy’s Law
    

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40. Alpha is simply that you want
    somebody to share your pain!
    

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