Quotes About Testing Effort

Dijkstra once said, "Testing shows the presence, not the absence, of bugs." In other words, a program can be proven incorrect by a test, but it cannot be proven correct. All that tests can do, after sufficient testing effort, is allow us to deem a program to be correct enough for our purposes.

Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all.