Bill Gates Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Defect-free software does not exist.

There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.

When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.

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

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

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

I used Agitator on some code I had unit-tested, and it made me a better tester. As an Agitar Fellow, I look forward to the leverage of working with an outstanding organization as together we continue to improve the value of developer testing.

I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

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

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

If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

All software sucks.

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

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

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

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.

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