Top 100 Software Testing Quotes » GetSocialGuide

Top 100 Software Testing Quotes

The best explanation is sometimes a metaphor. Here is our definitive collection of quotations about software testing, ranging from the hilarious to the frank and informative. On issues ranging from detecting bugs to tester-developer relationships, we’ve collected quotes from people like Angie Jones and Michael Bolton.

Please feel free to tweet about these quotes, use them in presentations, and otherwise distribute them!

List of Software Testing Quotes

Quotes About Quality

“Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.”— DeMarco and Lister

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”— Benjamin Franklin

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”— Aristotle

“Software never was perfect and won’t get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.”— Boris Beizer

“Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.”— Marissa Mayer, Yahoo! CEO

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”— Steve Jobs

“If you’re relentlessly focused on lowering cost, you’ll quickly become oblivious to opportunities to increase value.” — Michael Bolton

“…Quality debt focuses on the impact of implementation and quality decisions on the end user and business; how those decisions affect their ability to do their day-to day-job.”— Jordan Setters

“Quality means doing it right even when no one is looking.”— Henry Ford

“Fast, good, cheap: pick any two.”— Anonymous

“Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.”— DeMarco and Lister

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”— Benjamin Franklin

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”— Aristotle

“Software never was perfect and won’t get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.”— Boris Beizer

“Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.”— Melissa Meyer, Yahoo! CEO

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”— Steve Jobs

“…Quality debt focuses on the impact of implementation and quality decisions on the end user and business; how those decisions affect their ability to do their day-to day-job.”— Jordan Setters

“Quality means doing it right even when no one is looking.”— Henry Ford

“Fast, good, cheap: pick any two.”— Anonymous

“Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.” – Ralph Johnson.

And he wrote Design Patterns, so he would have a say in reuse… “If you don’t care about quality, you can meet any other requirement” – Gerald M. Weinberg

“Pay attention to zeros. If there is a zero, someone will divide by it.” – Cem Kaner

Quality quotes highlight the importance of the job and what QA means to a company and the profession. While the teams in Quality tend to be overlooked, they are essential to the production of a good product. These software testing quotes make good business sense while driving home the point that product quality is as important as any other part of the process, if not the most important.

To sustain a business, you must have consistent quality. “Quality takes time and reduces quantity, so it makes you, in a sense, less efficient. The efficiency-optimized organization recognizes quality as its enemy. That’s why many corporate Quality Programs are really Quality Reduction Programs in disguise.” Tom Demarcco

“Judge us on the quality of our products, and not the quantity of our paperwork.” Michel Van Mellaerts

“In many ways, being a good tester is harder than being a good developer because testing requires not only a very good understanding of the development process and its products, but it also demands an ability to anticipate likely faults and errors”John D. McGregor

“Quality is a product of a conflict between programmers and testers.”Yegor Bugayenko

“I think quality is core. You need to treat quality as a product internally, and you do not outsource a core product.” Mik Kersten

“If you don’t care about quality, you can meet any other requirement” Gerald M. Weinberg

“Quality is not an act; it is a habit” Aristotle

“Quality is the best business plan.” John Lasseter

“There is no such thing as a perfect method. Methods always can be improved upon.” Walter Daiber

“Quality needs to be constantly improved, but it is just as necessary to make sure that quality never deteriorates.” Shigeru Mizuno

Software Testing Quotes

These QA quotes are up-to-date, sassy, and hilariously accurate from experts. These statements on software testing straddle the line between making fun of the industry and imparting wise counsel on bug hunting, automated testing, or software development. A joke or brief phrase frequently contains insightful advice that can influence your way of thinking. These quotes about testing can provide you a little break, some inspiration, or just a smile.

“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” Martin Golding “Reminds me of the awesome bug report I saw once: ‘Everything is broken. Steps to reproduce: do anything. Expected result: it should work’.“ Felipe Knorr Kuhn

“The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.” Seymour Cray

“Never allow the same bug to bite you twice.” Steve Maguire

“First do it, then do it right, then do it better.“ Addy Osmani

“When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.” Richard Pattis

“If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” Gerald Weinberg

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of meeting the schedule has been forgotten.” Karl Wiegers

Coding & Programming Quotes

Like testers, programmers have a sense of humour and some intelligence. Enjoy these quotes while taking some of their intertwined advice to heart. These software testing quotes about programming and coding are a great way to add a smile to the conversation while also gaining some knowledge. It’s wonderful that some people can express a thought in a single sentence as opposed to a lengthy piece of writing. A few words could be all it takes to make a significant point.

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” Martin Fowler

“Java is to JavaScript what car is to Carpet.” Chris Heilmann

“Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code.” Dan Salomon

“Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.” Cory House

“Fix the cause, not the symptom.” Steve Maguire

“Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.” Kent Beck

“Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.” Ralph Johnson

“Make it work, make it right, make it fast.” Kent Beck

Software Testing Quotes

“Testers don’t like to break things; they like to dispel the illusion that things work.”— Kaner, Bach, Pettichord

“Pretty good testing is easy to do (that’s partly why some people like to say ‘testing is dead’– they think testing isn’t needed as a special focus because they note that anyone can find at least some bugs some of the time). Excellent testing is quite hard to do.”— James Bach

“A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.”— James Thurber

“Testing is not responsible for the bugs inserted into software any more than the sun is responsible for creating dust in the air.”— Dorothy Graham

“To those who say that “if you need testing at the end, you’re doing it wrong”, would you prefer a Boeing, or are you going Air Icarus?”— Michael Bolton

“The problem is not that testing is the bottleneck. The problem is that you don’t know what’s in the bottle. That’s a problem that testing addresses.“— Michael Bolton

“As ironic as it seems, the challenge of a tester is to test as little as possible. Test less, but test smarter.” — Federico Toledo

“I am pretty sure there is a difference between “this has not been proven” and “this is false.”— Ron Jeffries

“Testing is a skill. While this may come as a surprise to some people it is a simple fact.”— Fewster and Graham

“You can be a great tester if you have programming skills. You can also be a great tester if you have no programming skills at all. And, you can be a lousy tester with or without programming skills. A great tester will learn what skills she needs to continue to be great, in her own style.”— Jerry Weinberg

“No amount of testing can prove a software right, a single test can prove a software wrong.”— Amir Ghahrai

“Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.“— George E. P. Box

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘Now that’s funny…’”— Isaac Asimov

“Testing is an infinite process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous in order to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.”— James Bach

“We only see what we know.”— Goethe

“Pay attention to zeros. If there is a zero, someone will divide by it.” Dr. Cem KanerClick to tweet

“The more effort I put into testing the product conceptually at the start of the process, the less I effort I had to put into manually testing the product at the end because less bugs would emerge as a result.”— Trish Khoo

“I do believe it’s important for testers to know the market that their client or their employer is in and the reason for that is if you understand what risks your client is facing and you understand what the competing products are and where the challenges lie in the market, you can plan your testing accordingly.”— Karen N. Johnson

“I think when you hear the phrase ‘it’s just test code’. To me that’s a code smell.”— Alan Page

“Just because you’ve counted all the trees doesn’t mean you’ve seen the forest.”— Anonymous

“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”— Dave Parnas

“It’s not at all important to get it right the first time. It’s vitally important to get it right the last time.”— Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

“Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.”— Norman Ralph Augustine

“Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.”Burt RutanClick to tweet

Quotes About Bugs

“If we want to be serious about quality, it is time to get tired of finding bugs and start preventing their happening in the first place.”— Alan Page

“More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.”— Boris Beizer

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”— Brian W. Kernighan

“When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.”— Richard Pattis

“It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it; it’s even harder when you’ve assumed your code is error-free.”— Steve McConnell

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”— Donald Knuth

Quotes About Performance

“Just as athletes can’t win without a sophisticated mixture of strategy, form, attitude, tactics, and speed, performance engineering requires a good collection of metrics and tools to deliver the desired business results.”— Todd DeCapua

“If an end user perceives bad performance from your website, her next click will likely be on your-competition.com.”― Ian Molyneaux

“Any optimization that is not about the bottleneck is an illusion of improvement” – Federico Toledo

“Only conducting performance testing at the conclusion of system or functional testing is like conducting a diagnostic blood test on a patient who is already dead.”— Scott Barber

Quotes About Automation

“Automated scripts are checking known paths for expected results. That’s not truly testing. Testers discover the unknown, and this skill is still very much so needed, whether there’s automation or not. Without human intuitive exploration, a team may be blind to their most expensive bugs.”— Angie Jones

“Also common is the test automation group zombie. This zombie is the practice of assigning test automation to a dedicated team of test automators. The appeal is that we can keep developers focused on writing new code instead of writing and maintaining automated tests. The danger is that test automation inevitably lags development, so feedback from testing is delayed in a way that significantly reduces its value.”— Dale Emery.

“Automation does not do what testers used to do, unless one ignores most things a tester really does. Automated testing is useful for extending the reach of the testers work, not to replace it.”— James Bach . “It’s automation, not automagic.” — Jim Hazen

Funny Testing Quotes

“Keep calm and enhance your team testing culture”— Claudia Badell

“Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky, courtesy of Elena Houser’s blog

“Where is the ‘any’ key?”— Homer Simpson

“f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n sftwr tstng.”— Anonymous

“To an optimist, the glass is half full. To a pessimist, the glass is half empty. To a good tester, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.”— Anonymous

“Q: How many testers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None, they just tell you that the room is dark.”— Anonymous

“All code is guilty until proven innocent.”— Anonymous

“One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.” — David Parnas

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.”— Emo Philips

“If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.” — Linus Torvalds

“Software and cathedrals are much the same: first we build them, then we pray.”— Anonymous

“The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn’t stake my life on it.”— Gene Spafford

“Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.”— Anonymous

“Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.”— Kreitzberg and Shneiderman

“The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.”— Bill Gates

“There are types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.”— Anonymous

“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”— Edward V. Berard

“I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!”— Vidiu Platon

Quotes About Software

“A system is never finished being developed until it ceases to be used.” — Jerry Weinberg

“If the software doesn’t have to work, you can always meet any other requirement.”Jerry WeinbergClick to tweet

“Software is like entropy: It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases.”— Norman Augustine

“Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.”— Nathan Myhrvold

“The first % of the code accounts for the first % of the development time. The remaining % of the code accounts for the other % of the development time.”— Tom Cargill

“It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.”— Craig Bruce

“Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.”— Donald Knuth

“First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.”— John Johnson

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”— Martin Fowler

Quotes About Tools

“A fool with a tool is still a fool.”Grady BoochClick to tweet

“Just like with everything else, tools won’t give you good results unless you know how, when, and why to apply them. If you go out and you buy the most expensive frying pan on the market it’s still not going to make you a good chef.”— Christin Wiedemann

“He who thinks a tool can solve all problems, has a new problem.”— Federico Toledo
Quotes About Testers and Developers
“Everybody can do testing, but only a tester does good testing.”— Melissa Eaden

“Share the pain and find together the solution.”— Lisa Crispin

“We have as many testers as we have developers. And testers spend all their time testing, and developers spend half their time testing. We’re more of a testing, a quality software organization than we’re a software organization.”— Bill Gates

“A great tester gives programmers immediate feedback on what they did right and what they did wrong. Believe it or not, one of the most valuable features of a tester is providing positive reinforcement. There is no better way to improve a programmer’s morale, happiness, and subjective sense of well-being than a La Marzocco Linea espresso machine to have dedicated testers who get frequent releases from the developers, try them out, and give negative and positive feedback.”-– Joel Spolsky

“I remember the days when QA testers were treated almost as second-class citizens and developers ruled the software world. But as it recently occurred to me: we’re all testers now.” —Joe Colantonio

“Testing has to be an integral part of developing software and not a separate phase. When this approach is taken, product quality is owned by everyone on the team. It is easy to state, but hard to put into practice because of long-standing preconceived notions that developers and testers are better kept apart.”— James Sivak

Quotes About Management

“Planning is the key, the plan is not so important.” — Janet Gregory . “Think outside the thought leadership to avoid being a thought follower. Adopting a good idea means you’ll still evaluate the next one.”— Lanette Creamer

“‘Industry Best Practice’ is more likely to mean industry lowest common denominator.”Jason YipClick to tweet

“Having a testing specialist on the team is a valuable asset, but the role of a specialist isn’t to restrict that responsibility to a single person.”— Trish Khoo

“The key to building a great product is building a great team first. To me, great teams aren’t bound by roles, but they’re driven by moving forward.”— Alan Page

“While we may understand the problem, it is critical for us to change our thinking, our practices, and continuously evolve to stay ahead of the problems we face.”— Mike Lyles

“Ever Tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”— Samuel Beckett

“I’m pretty much convinced that if you want a team to go fast, a feeling of momentum is more important than a sense of urgency.” —Elisabeth Hendrickson

“If we fail, we fall. If we succeed – then we will face the next task.”— Gandalf (Tolkien)

“Everything really interesting that happens in software projects eventually comes down to people.”— James Marcus Bach

“When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”— Alexander Den Heijer via Anne-Marie Charrett

Quotes About Agile Testing

“People always say “code and then test,” I prefer “test and then code.”— Janet Gregory

“If you adopt only one agile practice, let it be retrospectives. Everything else will follow.”— Woody Zuill

“To successfully implement continuous delivery, you need to change the culture of how an entire organization views software development efforts.”— Tommy Tynja

“In shifting left, teams see huge benefits such as finding bugs much earlier, sometimes even before code is ever written. This results in a higher quality of code and a far less expensive way in achieving such.” — Angie Jones

“There’s this notion in agile teams of delivering a vertical slice of functionality in each sprint. You can’t do that if the team doesn’t represent all aspects of the slice. So the magic is in composing the team with a broad set of skills that’s focused on delivering value.”— Mary Thorn

Software testing quotes

“Testers don’t like to break things; they like to dispel the illusion that things work.”— Kaner, Bach, Pettichord

“You can see a lot by just looking.”— Yogi Berra

“Pretty good testing is easy to do (that’s partly why some people like to say ‘testing is dead’– they think testing isn’t needed as a special focus because they note that anyone can find at least some bugs some of the time). Excellent testing is quite hard to do.”— James Bach

“A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.”— James Thurber

“Testing is not responsible for the bugs inserted into software any more than the sun is responsible for creating dust in the air.”— Dorothy Graham

“To those who say that ‘if you need testing at the end, you’re doing it wrong’, would you prefer a Boeing, or are you going Air Icarus?”— Michael Bolton

“The problem is not that testing is the bottleneck. The problem is that you don’t know what’s in the bottle. That’s a problem that testing addresses.“— Michael Bolton

“I am pretty sure there is a difference between “this has not been proven” and “this is false.”— Ron Jeffries

“Testing is a skill. While this may come as a surprise to some people it is a simple fact.”— Fewster and Graham

“You can be a great tester if you have programming skills. You can also be a great tester if you have no programming skills at all. And, you can be a lousy tester with or without programming skills. A great tester will learn what skills she needs to continue to be great, in her own style.”— Jerry Weinberg

“No amount of testing can prove a software right, a single test can prove a software wrong.”— Amir Ghahrai

“Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.“— George E. P. Box

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘Now that’s funny…’”— Isaac Asimov

“Testing is an infinite process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous in order to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.”— James Bach

“We only see what we know.”— Goethe

“The more effort I put into testing the product conceptually at the start of the process, the less I effort I had to put into manually testing the product at the end because less bugs would emerge as a result.”— Trish Khoo

“I do believe it’s important for testers to know the market that their client or their employer is in and the reason for that is if you understand what risks your client is facing and you understand what the competing products are and where the challenges lie in the market, you can plan your testing accordingly.”— Karen N. Johnson

“I think when you hear the phrase ‘it’s just test code’. To me that’s a code smell.”— Alan Page

“Testers don’t break software, software is already broken.”— Amir Gahrai

“Documents are the corpse of knowledge.”— Rick Bradley

“Just because you’ve counted all the trees doesn’t mean you’ve seen the forest.”— Anonymous

“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”— Dave Parnas

“It’s not at all important to get it right the first time. It’s vitally important to get it right the last time.”— Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

“Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.”— Norman Ralph Augustine

Quotes About Bugs

“If we want to be serious about quality, it is time to get tired of finding bugs and start preventing their happening in the first place.”— Alan Page

“More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.”— Boris Beizer

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”— Brian W. Kernighan

“When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.”— Richard Pattis

“It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it; it’s even harder when you’ve assumed your code is error-free.”— Steve McConnell

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”— Donald Knuth

Quotes About Performance

“Just as athletes can’t win without a sophisticated mixture of strategy, form, attitude, tactics, and speed, performance engineering requires a good collection of metrics and tools to deliver the desired business results.”— Todd DeCapua

“If an end user perceives bad performance from your website, her next click will likely be on your-competition.com.”― Ian Molyneaux

Quotes About Automation

“Also common is the test automation group zombie. This zombie is the practice of assigning test automation to a dedicated team of test automators. The appeal is that we can keep developers focused on writing new code instead of writing and maintaining automated tests. The danger is that test automation inevitably lags development, so feedback from testing is delayed in a way that significantly reduces its value.”— Dale Emery

“Automation does not do what testers used to do, unless one ignores most things a tester really does. Automated testing is useful for extending the reach of the testers work, not to replace it.”— James Bach
Funny Quotes
“Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky, courtesy of Elena Houser’s blog

“Where is the ‘any’ key?”— Homer Simpson . “f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n sftwr tstng.”— Anonymous

“To an optimist, the glass is half full. To a pessimist, the glass is half empty. To a good tester, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.”— Anonymous

“Irreproducible bugs become highly reproducible right after delivery to the customer.”— Michael Stahl’s derivative of Murphy’s Law

“Q: How many testers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None, they just tell you that the room is dark.”— Anonymous

“All code is guilty until proven innocent.”— Anonymous

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.”— Emo Philips

“Software and cathedrals are much the same: first we build them, then we pray.”— Anonymous

“First law of Bad Management: If something isn’t working, do more of it.”— DeMarco

“The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn’t stake my life on it.”— Gene Spafford

“Silicon Valley is the QA department for the rest of the world. It’s where you test out new business models.”— James Cham . “Alpha is simply that you want somebody to share your pain!”— Anonymous

“Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.”— Anonymous

“Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.”— Kreitzberg and Shneiderman

“The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.”— Bill Gates

“There are types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.”— Anonymous

“The internet? That thing is still around?”— Homer Simpson

“I think it’s a new feature. Don’t tell anyone it was an accident.”— Larry Wall

“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”— Edward V. Berard

“I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!”— Vidiu Platon

Quotes about software

“As any poet knows, a system is a way of looking at the world.”— Jerry Weinberg

“If the software doesn’t have to work, you can always meet any other requirement.”— Jerry Weinberg

“Software is like entropy: It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases.”— Norman Augustine . “Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.”— Nathan Myhrvold

“The first % of the code accounts for the first % of the development time. The remaining % of the code accounts for the other % of the development time.”— Tom Cargill

“It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.”— Craig Bruce

“Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.”— Donald Knuth

“First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.”— John Johnson

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”— Martin Fowler

Quotes About Tools

“Just like with everything else, tools won’t give you good results unless you know how, when, and why to apply them. If you go out and you buy the most expensive frying pan on the market it’s still not going to make you a good chef.”— Christin Wiedemann

“He who thinks a tool can solve all problems, has a new problem.”— Federico Toledo

Quotes About Testers and Developers

“We have as many testers as we have developers. And testers spend all their time testing, and developers spend half their time testing. We’re more of a testing, a quality software organization than we’re a software organization.”— Bill Gates

“A great tester gives programmers immediate feedback on what they did right and what they did wrong. Believe it or not, one of the most valuable features of a tester is providing positive reinforcement. There is no better way to improve a programmer’s morale, happiness, and subjective sense of well-being than a La Marzocco Linea espresso machine to have dedicated testers who get frequent releases from the developers, try them out, and give negative and positive feedback.”— Joel Spolsky

“I remember the days when QA testers were treated almost as second-class citizens and developers ruled the software world. But as it recently occurred to me: we’re all testers now.” — Joe Colantonio

“Testing has to be an integral part of developing software and not a separate phase. When this approach is taken, product quality is owned by everyone on the team. It is easy to state, but hard to put into practice because of long-standing preconceived notions that developers and testers are better kept apart.”— James Sivak

Quotes about Management

“Think outside the thought leadership to avoid being a thought follower. Adopting a good idea means you’ll still evaluate the next one.”— Lanette Creamer

“Having a testing specialist on the team is a valuable asset, but the role of a specialist isn’t to restrict that responsibility to a single person.”— Trish Khoo

“The key to building a great product is building a great team first. To me, great teams aren’t bound by roles, but they’re driven by moving forward.”— Alan Page

“While we may understand the problem, it is critical for us to change our thinking, our practices, and continuously evolve to stay ahead of the problems we face.”— Mike Lyles

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”— Albert Einstein

“The more you improve the way you go about your work, the harder the work will be.”— Lister, DeMarco

“Ever Tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”— Samuel Beckett

“Earning the “annoying” label for asking questions is ok, but becoming “annoying” via your response to their answers isn’t.”— Scott Barber

“I’m pretty much convinced that if you want a team to go fast, a feeling of momentum is more important than a sense of urgency.” — Elisabeth Hendrickson

“If we fail, we fall. If we succeed – then we will face the next task.”— Gandalf (Tolkien)

“When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”— Alexander Den Heijer via Anne-Marie Charrett

Reading these management quotes will only help if you hire the right services as a business owner. For example, you can get expertise in supply chain management systems to ensure you don’t run into any problems.

If you are interested in more virous quotes check out the best quotes website wishespot

Originally posted 2022-07-10 11:17:33.