From: Tim Boyer 

On 22 Jul 2004 23:14:22 GMT, Ellen K  wrote:

>Yep.  A very important point.
>
>> From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 
>> Plus there is the limiting factor of time - you can't test forever, at some
>> point the software must be stamped as "ready", accepting
the fact that some
>> problems may remain in it. Tricky business that testin: since you have
>> limited time to test, better find the most severe bugs first...
>> Antti Kurenniemi
>> ( but seriously)
>> "Ellen K"  wrote in message
>> news:0098e9.f3958a{at}harborwebs.com...
>>> I don't know why I'm bothering to answer, but the reason bugs will
>>> surface in real use is that no matter how brilliant the
testers are, they
>>> will not think of everything.
>>>

"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


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