Kent Beck Quotes

Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.

A program that has not been tested does not work.

Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.

Testing, we will never do enough of it.

One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made worked nicely and which we would have done differently.

Testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.

A very important part of game development is testing - something that a lot of developers don't do.

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.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.

An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries

The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

Extreme programming is an emotional experience.

Defect-free software does not exist.

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.