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The key is to test the areas that you are most worried about going wrong. That way you get the most benefit for your testing effort. It is better to write and run incomplete tests than not to run complete tests

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Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.

Extreme Programming Explained (2000)

When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.

Kent Beck As cited in: Giles Bowkett (2007)

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

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