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<p>1. The simplest kind of test of software or hardware; doing the equivalent of asking it what 2 + 2 is and seeing if you get 4. The software equivalent of a smoke test. </p>
<p>2. The act of letting a real user try out prototype software. Compare sanity check.</p>
<H4>reality failure</H4>
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When your system works perfectly as designed and passes all unit tests, but when deployed in a realistic production situation it fails utterly.
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<H4>reality-distortion field</H4>
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n. An expression used to describe the persuasive ability of managers like Steve Jobs (the term originated at Apple in the 1980s to describe his peculiar charisma). Those close to these managers become passionately committed to possibly insane projects, without regard to the practicality of their implementation or competitive forces in the marketplace.

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2. The act of letting a real user try out prototype software. Compare sanity check.
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When your system works perfectly as designed and passes all unit tests, but when deployed in a realistic production situation it fails utterly.
*** reality-distortion field
n. An expression used to describe the persuasive ability of managers like Steve Jobs (the term originated at Apple in the 1980s to describe his peculiar charisma). Those close to these managers become passionately committed to possibly insane projects, without regard to the practicality of their implementation or competitive forces in the marketplace.

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reality failure
When your system works perfectly as designed and passes all unit tests, but
when deployed in a realistic production situation it fails utterly.