Testers Quotes

Across th street is a hell of a tester.

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'.

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 quality.

The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.

Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.

I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an absolutely critical role. They're the ones who ah, write thousands and thousands of examples and make sure that it's going to work on all the different computers and printers and the different amounts of memory or networks that the software'11 be used in. That's a very hard job.

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

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 the fix obvious to someone).

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.

The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.

You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.