PPT Slide
[Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distinguished Lecture Series 1996
Bill Gates Keynote Address, Wednesday May 30th, 1996]
"Testing is another area where I have to say I'm a little bit disappointed in the lack of progress. At Microsoft, in a typical development group, there are many more testers than there are engineers writing code. Yet engineers spend well over a third of their time doing testing type work. You could say that we spend more time testing than we do writing code. And if you go back through the history of large-scale systems, that's the way they've been. But, you know, what kind of new techniques are there in terms of analyzing where those things come from and having constructs that do automatic testing? Very, very little. So if you know a researcher out there who wants to work on that problem, boy, we'd love to put a group together."