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Robert_N_Britcher
Limits of Testing
“The limits of software are never more obvious than in its testing. Software systems are beyond discrete and statistical analysis. A single incorrect state - out of two to the trillionth states - can down a rocket: To find such a fault in a software system would require a hundred generations of programmers - but after the first failure is found and fixed, all bets are off; they wouldn't be testing the same system anymore. We can design and build fail-safe systems, but can we know we did?”
- Source: Britcher, Robert N. (1999). The Limits of Software: People, Projects, and Perspectives. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-43323-0. Page 56.
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Kenneth_W_Kolence
Software Not Physical
“We clearly do not now have an engineering capability comparable to those based on the physical sciences. Such a capability is what is implied by the term software engineering. But software is not a physical system, it is a description of what one describes how a given physical system (a computer of some sort) should act. Thus software is more akin to engineering drawings, either maintained on paper or within a computer. ... So probably it is incorrect to assume software engineering should be considered as a sibling in the family of the physical science based engineering disciplines.”
- Source: Kenneth W. Kolence; Jeffrey Yost (2003). An Interview with Kenneth W. Kolence. Charles Babbage Institute Center for the History of Information Technology. Retrieved 2018-03-27 from https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107415 or https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107415/oh348kk.pdf .
- See Also:
- What Is Software Design? by Jack W. Reeves. Published February 23, 2005)
- https://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/reeves_design.html
- This essay first appeared in the Fall, 1992 issue of C++ Journal.
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- What Is Software Design? by Jack W. Reeves. Published February 23, 2005)
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Alan_Perlis
Understanding Code
“It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.”
- Source: Perlis, A. J. (1982). Special Feature: Epigrams on programming. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 17(9), 7–13. http://doi.org/10.1145/947955.1083808
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