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Boris Beizer is a renowned author, born in 1934. His works span across various fields, including technical writing, software engineering, and project management. Beizer is best known for his contributions to the field of software testing, particularly his development of testing processes and methodologies.

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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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Book:Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems

Source: Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems

“A good threat is worth a thousand tests.”

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Book:Software Testing Techniques

Source: Software Testing Techniques

“If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.”

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Author:Boris Beizer

“Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.”

Corners Boundaries Programming Testing Bugs Software Engineering

Book:Software Testing Techniques

Source: Software Testing Techniques

“Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.”

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Book:Software Testing Techniques

Source: Software Testing Techniques

“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.”

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Book:Software Testing Techniques

Source: Software Testing Techniques

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

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Book:Software Testing Techniques

Source: Software Testing Techniques

“If the objective of testing were to prove that a program is free of bugs, then not only would testing be practically impossible, but it would also be theoretically impossible.”

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Author:Boris Beizer

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Born: 1934
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