Testers Quotes

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

  Boris Beizer

  Design, Tests, Bugs

  Boris Beizer (1990). "Software Testing Techniques", Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.

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

  Tom DeMarco

  Quality, Pay, Testing

  Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.22, Addison-Wesley

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• Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.

  George E. P. Box

  Important, Unexpected, Discovering

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• Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

  Linus Torvalds

  Bazaars, Bugs, Enough

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• 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.

  Boris Beizer

  Perfect, Missing, Quality

  Boris Beizer (1990). "Software Testing Techniques", Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.

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• Controlo las condiciones para que mis probadores se conviertan en mis probandos.

  Derren Brown

  Condiciones

  "Derren Brown: Mind Control". TV Series, 2002-2003.

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• 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).

  Eric S. Raymond

  Learning, Bugs, Problem

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

  Carol Leifer

  Should, Perfume, Audience

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• Across th street is a hell of a tester.

  Bobby Womack

  Hell, Streets

  Song: Across 110th Street – Part II

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• La persona más capacitada para valorar una promesa como matemático es un profesor dotado, y no un evaluador profesional.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Profesor, Ciencia, Promesa

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Senior, Long, Magic

  "Moving Pictures". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• Cada vez hay más gente que entra en la carpa con los creativos [de las películas de Hollywood]. Hay gente de marketing, probadores de conceptos y publicistas. Lo que más atrae son los temas atractivos: un bebé, un gran chiste, un concepto elevado. Se prueba todo. El efecto es que se reduce el riesgo, pero en realidad se destruye la confianza y la creatividad del guionista cuando se invita a tanta gente a la carpa.

  James L. Brooks

  Baby, Creativity, Hollywood Films

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

  Eric S. Raymond

  Becoming, Resources, Treats

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.38, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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

  Robert Breault

  Marriage, Years

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• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Memories, Writing

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