Code Quality Quotes

• Las pruebas por sí solas no mejoran la calidad del software. Los resultados de las pruebas son un indicador de la calidad, pero por sí solos no la mejoran. Intentar mejorar la calidad del software aumentando el número de pruebas es como intentar perder peso pesándose más a menudo. Lo que comes antes de subirte a la báscula determina cuánto pesarás, y las técnicas de desarrollo de software que utilizas determinan cuántos errores encontrarán las pruebas. Si quieres perder peso, no compres una báscula nueva; cambia tu dieta. Si quiere mejorar su software, no pruebe más; desarrolle mejor.

  Steve McConnell

  Errors, Simplicity, Trying

  Steve McConnell (2004). "Code Complete", p. 501, Pearson Education.

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• La mayor parte del software actual se parece mucho a una pirámide egipcia con millones de ladrillos apilados unos encima de otros, sin integridad estructural, sino simplemente hecho por la fuerza bruta y miles de esclavos.

  Alan Kay

  Divertido Inspiración, Integridad, Tecnología

  "Una conversación con Alan Kay: Gran charla con el creador de Smalltalk - y mucho más". Entrevista con Stuart Feldman en ACM Queue, volumen 2, número 9, queue.acm.org. 27 de diciembre de 2004.

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• Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

  Brian Kernighan

  Programming, Software Engineering, Documents

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• Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Program, Should, Software Engineering

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  Medir el progreso de la programación por líneas de código es como medir el progreso de la construcción aeronáutica por el peso.

  Bill Gates

  Éxito, confianza, liderazgo

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• At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.

  Tony Hoare

  Determination, Learning, Simplicity

  "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Communications of the ACM 24, dl.acm.org. February 1981.

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• Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Powerful, Bells, Language

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1976). “A Discipline of Programming”, Prentice Hall

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• Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

  Niklaus Wirth

  People, Perfection, Pressure

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• An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

  James Gosling

  Programming, Software Engineering, Quality

  "A Conversation with James Gosling". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. Jun 9, 2003.

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• Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

  Steve McConnell

  Logical, Program, Structure

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• The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious in the Linux port and vice versa, and thus get fixed. So even the Windows gamers will win in all of this.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Moving, Winning, Simple

  "Chat with Ryan Gordon". Chrono's Pad, February 11, 2001.

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• Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.

  Timothee Besset

  Matter, Linux, Architecture

  "id Software and Linux – By TTimo". Linux Gaming News, linuxgamingnews.org. September 15, 2009.

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