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• As the system comes up, the component builders will from time to time appear, bearing hot new versions of their pieces -- faster, smaller, more complete, or putatively less buggy.
  The replacement of a working component by a new version requires the same systematic testing procedure that adding a new component does, although it should require less time, for more complete and efficient test cases will usually be available....
• Each team building another component has been using the most recent tested version of the integrated system as a test bed for debugging its piece.
  Their work will be set back by having that test bed change under them....
• beta /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n.
  1. Mostly working, but still under test; usu. used with `in'...
• More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month...
• How does a project get to be a year late? ... One day at a time.
  - Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month...
• This, then, is the demythologizing of the man-month.
  The number of months of a project depends on its sequential constraints....
• The tar pit of software engineering will continue to be sticky for a long time to come.
  One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach...
• I will contend that conceptual integrity is *the* most important consideration in system design.
  -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man Month...