Testing Process Quotes

During my tenure with Nintendo, we've pushed back development a number of times on key games - in the end, it's always worth it - because our focus on quality is so strong.

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

We do think deeply about the sequencing of our games, but having said that, Nintendo is well-known that if a game isn't ready, we will push out the development in order to make sure that it is as strong as possible when the game launches.

We have to control our battery development and testing.

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.

Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add features.

if you make waffles, throw out the first one.

Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.

As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.

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

I have become a giant fan of the testing process, especially with a comedy. I mean, they tell you what's funny. It's almost tailor-made for people who shoot the way we shoot, trying a million different options and versions of things. Because the audience doesn't laugh at a joke, we put in another joke. If they don't laugh at the next joke, we put in another joke. You just keep doing them and you can get the movie to the point where every joke is funny, if you have enough options in the can.

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

It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well.

Not all teams use the same tests and certainly those tests are far from being 100 percent as well. It's part of the process.

Testing is overrated.

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