System Testing Quotes

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

In any technology, one has to be very careful to ensure that it is good and has enough safeguards.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Sometimes a malfunctioning test setup actually gives the tested system a chance to show what it can do in an unrehearsed emergency. During a test of an Apollo escape system in the 1960s, the escape system successfully got the capsule clear of a malfunctioning test rocket.

Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.