Posts Tagged: testing

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May 10

Time Bombs

Ran across this quote recently, thought you might enjoy it:

“Don’t call your defects ‘bugs’. Call them ‘time bombs’ instead.”
- Watts S. Humphrey

From Wikipedia: “Watts S. Humphrey (born 1927) is an American software engineer, key thinker in the discipline of software engineering, and is often called the father of software quality.”

He has a recent book out that looks like it could be good, Reflections on Management: How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself.  Has anyone read it?

[via @jurgenappelo]

“Don’t call your defects ‘bugs’. Call them ‘time bombs’ instead.” – Watts S. Humphrey
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Jan 10

Are you testing or checking?

Vikas Hazrati posts an interesting thought about testing vs. checking at InfoQ:

“Checking is something that we do with the motivation of confirming existing beliefs. [...] Testing is something that we do with the motivation of finding new information.”

So when you “test” your software, are you really testing? Or are you just checking?

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Jun 08

Technical Debt

Johanna Rothman writes about tracking the stuff you can’t fix today, but need to someday:

Technical debt needs to be as visible as everything else. Maybe more so, because the more debt you have, the slower any future development will be.