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A small ritual of controlled failure designed to catch big failure before it catches you.
means A procedure that checks whether something works, meets a standard, or is true by putting it under some kind of trial.
from From Old French 'test' meaning a pot used by goldsmiths to assay — that is, test the purity of — precious metals, tracing back to Latin 'testum,' an earthenware vessel, related to 'testa,' meaning shell or pot. The leap from 'the pot you melt gold in' to 'any trial that proves worth' happened gradually as the word drifted from the goldsmith's workshop into everyday speech.
- origin
- from testa, latin for earthen pot (used to assay metals)
- irony
- the best tests are the ones you want to fail
- software version
- writing one admits your code might be wrong
- human version
- anxiety with a grading rubric attached