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The art of breaking things on purpose before reality breaks them for you.
means The systematic act of checking whether something works the way it's supposed to, by trying to make it fail.
from Traces back to 'test,' from Latin 'testum,' a small earthen pot used by alchemists and goldsmiths to assay metals — literally to find out what something was really made of by putting it through heat. The word kept that core sense across centuries: a trial meant to reveal true quality, long before it meant pop quizzes or software QA.
- software ratio
- some teams spend more time testing than coding
- NASA rule
- Mars rovers get tested on Earth for years first
- schrodinger bug
- a bug that vanishes the moment you test for it
- oldest form
- ancient swordsmiths tested blades by cutting silk mid-air