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About the Existence of Bugs

1 January 2010 No Comment

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Source: Notes On Structured Programming, 1970, at the end of section 3, On The Reliability of Mechanisms.

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