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Testing is a state of mind

“If our goal is to show the absence of errors, we will find very few of them”

“If our goal is to show the presence of errors, we will discover a large number of them”

--by Mayer, 1979

Print | posted on Friday, August 20, 2004 8:23 PM

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# re: Testing is a state of mind

I agree with “If our goal is to show the presence of errors, we will discover a large number of them”

^^

Left by seong hye on Aug 26, 2004 6:46 AM

# re: Testing is a state of mind

I absolutely agree with the fact that "If our goal is to show the presence of errors, we will discover a large number of them"

Intention of banging the software is the best way of software testing.

Left by Sagar Das on Sep 09, 2004 6:26 PM

# re: Testing is a state of mind

I agree with the Statement "Testing is a state of mind" , but it doesn't mean that testers are Destructive unlike developers who are Constructive !!

Testers Test the software, just to make sure that it comes out with minimal number of errors, and hence in the process they have to work with the intention of finding errors.

:)
cheers testing
cheers QA

Left by PavanKumarS on Sep 13, 2004 11:08 AM