dogfoodingn.
/ˈdɒɡˌfuːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌfudɪŋ/, /ˈdɑɡˌfudɪŋ/ Computing slang.
The use of a company's product or service by the company's employees, as a means of testing it before it is made available to customers; an instance of this.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > specific tests or testing > test of materials or equipment > of machinery or software by developer
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1995 Amer. Programmer Feb. 34 For our team to achieve 100 percent dogfooding means that our new version must be more productive than the old version.
2011 E. Yourdon CIOs at Work i. 11 Where Google products are doing things that relate more to enterprise uses or organization uses of technology, my organization is much more directly involved in dogfooding and providing feedback.
2012 B. Wilson et al. SharePoint 2010: Enterprise Architect's Guidebook v. 124 By the end of dogfooding, the [server] farm had more than doubled in size, with a completely new storage system in place.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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