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Consider not promoting the term "sanity test"/"sanity check" #55

Closed carols10cents closed 9 years ago

carols10cents commented 9 years ago

So, for one thing, I'm not entirely convinced that there's a significant difference between how you've defined "smoke test" and "sanity test" in section 10.1.

For another, the term implies that "sanity" is a good thing and "insanity" is a bad thing, and, albeit indirectly, subtly reinforces the stigma associated with mental health problems.

While leaving the term "sanity test" out of the book certainly isn't going to stop everyone from using it, it's something that I thought you might be interested in at least thinking about.

On that note...

sdzivanovich commented 9 years ago

Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanity_check

Particularly: Software sanity tests are synonymous with smoke tests.

laboon commented 9 years ago

Agreed, although I have certainly used the term in the past in a slightly different way, there is no need to continue using ableist terminology if it is not necessary, and generally seen as synonymous with smoke testing.