Boris Beizer Quotes

Belgium, Author
June 25, 1934 – October, 7, 2018.

Boris Beizer was an American software engineer and author. He received his B.S. degree in physics from the City College of New York in 1956, an MS in Electrical Engineering (1963) and a PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. He wrote many books and articles on topics such as system architecture and software testing.

Also known as Software Developer, Engineer

Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.

Boris Beizer
- Failure
- Testing
- Proves
In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

Boris Beizer
A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

Boris Beizer
- Design
- Remedy
- Discovers
Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity and therefore that of bugs grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

Boris Beizer
- Law
- Complexity
- Barrier
If the objective of testing were to prove that a program is free of bugs, then not only would testing be practically impossible, but it would also be theoretically impossible.

Boris Beizer
- Impossible
- Prove
- Bugs
One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.

Boris Beizer
- Human
- Hilarious
- Keyboard