Best Testers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.”

Important Known Unexpected Discovering Testing Testers

Author:George E. P. Box

“Across th street is a hell of a tester.”

Hell Streets Testers

Author:Bobby Womack

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

Should Audience Perfume Testers

Author:Carol Leifer

“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.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”

Enough Given Programming Shallow Bugs Eyeballs Bazaars Testers

Author:Linus Torvalds

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

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Author:Joel Henry Hildebrand

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

Years Marriage Testers

Author:Robert Breault

“I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.”

Conditions Testers

Author:Derren Brown

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

Pay Quality Willing Testing Testers

Book:Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

“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).”

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Author:Eric S. Raymond

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

Ifs Becoming Resources Treats Valuable Programming Beta Testers

Book:The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

Source: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

“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.”

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Author:James L. Brooks