Quotes About Testing

Tests do not, or at least should not collaborate; it's universally accepted that inter-test dependency is an anti-pattern.

I don't like test names. Technically they're method names, but they're never called explicitly.

Within a single test, DRY can often apply.

You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something away from the book.

God does things and put certain things in front of you to see how strong you are.

One of the things that's really struck me at McLaren is just how much influence you have as a driver - I can test something in the simulator, or we can work on something in the cockpit, and they'll really listen to my input and, the next time you get in the sim, or the mock-up car, it's been changed at your recommendation.

Everybody wants to come out here and test my cardio but I'm one of the hardest working guys in the division.

I know that my body and my mind can take anything that any space outfit wants to give me - high altitude chamber test, which is fine; centrifuge test, which I know I can do five and six G's. These things are easy for me.

But we should be wary of people reeling off ornate wine or coffee descriptions: Our ability to correctly identify particular odors in a complex, blended mixture, for example, begins to hit a "ceiling" at three. Beyond that, tests have shown, people become worse than chance at picking out correct aromas. As

You sound like Starflight," Clay said. "Will there be a test at the end of this lecture?" "He wouldn't talk to me, by the way," she said. "Not even when I asked

Honesty and integrity are a "given" in most organizations, rarely tested on any but the most superficial levels.

Although it is illegal in eighteen states, to ask employees to take the polygraph test, employers reportedly can find ways around those laws.

About half of the 4,700 McDonald's fast food outlets, for example, give a polygraph test for preemployment screening.7

federal government is the third largest user of the polygraph test to detect lying. In 1982 22,597 tests were reported by various federal agencies.* Most were given to investigate a crime, except for the polygraph tests given by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). These agencies use the polygraph for intelligence and counterintelligence investigations.

Dad determined when the pork lard was hot enough for frying by dropping a match into it; if the match lit, the lard was hot enough.

If we do not test ourselves daily, in seemingly small ways, our spiritual selves will never build the strength we will need when life's major trials are presented.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested. The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.

What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up.

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens.