Unit test

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 * Glossary
 ** (
@@ -4109,7 +4109,7 @@ n. [common] One who habitually flame s. Said esp. of obnoxious Usenet personalit
 *** flap
 1. [obs.] To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap...). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and DEC microtapes were 1, 2,... and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. 
 
-2. By extension, to unload any magnetic tape. Modern cartridge tapes no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained. (The term could well be re-applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes.
+2. By extension, to unload any magnetic tape, even if it no longer actually had a flap. (The term could also be applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive, which was a spectacularly misengineered contraption making a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes.
 
 *** flarp
 /flarp/ , n. [Rutgers University] Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo ). Among those who use it, it is associated with a legend that any program not containing the word flarp somewhere will not work. The legend is discreetly silent on the reliability of programs which do contain the magic word.
@@ -8229,6 +8229,9 @@ n. See feature.
 
 2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code. Hackers regard uninteresting problems as intolerable wastes of time, to be solved (if at all) by lesser mortals. Real hackers (see toolsmith ) generalize uninteresting problems enough to make them interesting and solve them thus solving the original problem as a special case (and, it must be admitted, occasionally turning a molehill into a mountain, or a mountain into a tectonic plate). See WOMBAT , SMOP ; compare toy problem , oppose interesting.
 
+*** unit test
+To create automated test functions in order to check that software works in the expected manner. An entire development methodology grew up around this practice, known as "test driven development" (TDD). The theory was that you should write unit tests first describing what your program *should* do, and then write your program afterwards. Whether test driven development is the best methodology for developing reliable software remains the cause of holy wars. Detractors claim that writing and maintaining the tests themselves detracts from the main purpose and creates unnecessary overhead. Proponents claim that you can't really know if your program works unless there are tests to validate against.
+
 *** universal greeting time
 UGT (acronym). A time-agnostic greeting phrase used on IRC channels. Since participants on IRC are often international saying "good morning" or "good evening" can seem odd if you're not in the same time zone. "Good (UGT) morning" or "good morning (UGT)" may be used as a substitute, and similar for other times of day.
 

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       <H2>Generated</H2>
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         <H4>flap</H4>
         <p>1. [obs.] To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap...). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and DEC microtapes were 1, 2,... and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. </p>
 
-<p>2. By extension, to unload any magnetic tape. Modern cartridge tapes no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained. (The term could well be re-applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes.</p>
+<p>2. By extension, to unload any magnetic tape, even if it no longer actually had a flap. (The term could also be applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive, which was a spectacularly misengineered contraption making a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes.</p>
         <H4>flarp</H4>
         <p>
         /flarp/ , n. [Rutgers University] Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo ). Among those who use it, it is associated with a legend that any program not containing the word flarp somewhere will not work. The legend is discreetly silent on the reliability of programs which do contain the magic word.
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         <p>1. Said of a problem that, although nontrivial , can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it. </p>
 
 <p>2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code. Hackers regard uninteresting problems as intolerable wastes of time, to be solved (if at all) by lesser mortals. Real hackers (see toolsmith ) generalize uninteresting problems enough to make them interesting and solve them thus solving the original problem as a special case (and, it must be admitted, occasionally turning a molehill into a mountain, or a mountain into a tectonic plate). See WOMBAT , SMOP ; compare toy problem , oppose interesting.</p>
+        <H4>unit test</H4>
+        <p>
+        To create automated test functions in order to check that software works in the expected manner. An entire development methodology grew up around this practice, known as "test driven development" (TDD). The theory was that you should write unit tests first describing what your program *should* do, and then write your program afterwards. Whether test driven development is the best methodology for developing reliable software remains the cause of holy wars. Detractors claim that writing and maintaining the tests themselves detracts from the main purpose and creates unnecessary overhead. Proponents claim that you can't really know if your program works unless there are tests to validate against.
+        </p>
         <H4>universal greeting time</H4>
         <p>
         UGT (acronym). A time-agnostic greeting phrase used on IRC channels. Since participants on IRC are often international saying "good morning" or "good evening" can seem odd if you're not in the same time zone. "Good (UGT) morning" or "good morning (UGT)" may be used as a substitute, and similar for other times of day.

entries/unit_test.txt

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+unit test
+
+To create automated test functions in order to check that software works in
+the expected manner. An entire development methodology grew up around this
+practice, known as "test driven development" (TDD). The theory was that you
+should write unit tests first describing what your program *should* do, and
+then write your program afterwards.
+
+Whether test driven development is the best methodology for developing
+reliable software remains the cause of holy wars. Detractors claim that
+writing and maintaining the tests themselves detracts from the main
+purpose and creates unnecessary overhead. Proponents claim that you
+can't really know if your program works unless there are tests to
+validate against.