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deftest

9.9

A small piece of code written with a special command to check parts of a program

noun

Jargon

: deftest

Before merging the code, she ran every deftest to check for failures.

Examples

Writing a deftest helps catch bugs early in the development process.
The deftest in the project checks for edge cases.
The team added a new deftest to ensure the function handled errors correctly.
I wrote a new deftest for the function last night.
The developer wrote a deftest to ensure the function worked correctly under various conditions.
Using a deftest in Clojure can help catch bugs early in the development process.
When optimizing the code, the programmer added several deftest cases to validate the new changes.

Synonyms

test

vsdeftest

∞ 1.0

An activity to check how well something works

is specific to programming used for unit-level checks defined by a macro

Surface Forms

deftest singular

deftests plural

Etymology

Deftest in programming comes from joining def ('define') and test ('check'), especially in languages like Clojure. So deftest literally 'defines a test', a small piece of code you run to check that other code works.