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Wiktionary
- v. present participle of dogfood.
Examples
“At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding," wrote Mario Querioz, the company's London-based vice president of product management.”
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“At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding (from "eating your own dogfood").”
“One common practice is so-called dogfooding, Morgan said, which is "when an engineer has to walk around and live with the device he made," or eat his own dog food, as the expression goes.”
“Eating one's own dog food, also called dogfooding, is when a company uses the products that it makes.”
“For example, with Google Apps Web Forms we innovated by addressing the key problem of distributed data collection, making it incredibly simple to collect survey data from within the enterprise — a critical feature for collecting internal feedback we use extensively when "dogfooding" all of our products.”
“However, there are clear limits to what "dogfooding" as the process is known can predict about how the general public will receive a product, especially at a company like Google where employees are selected in part because they are "outliers" compared to the general population, Boyd said.”
“And this 'dogfooding' (something-like-Adsense), can I 'test' it somehow?”
“Queiroz wrote that several Google employees had been given the phone for "dogfooding"; slang for testing, as in "eating our own dog food".”
“The company had been testing the Nexus One smartphone with employees through a process it dubbed "dogfooding", but today it announced the device would be available more broadly through its web store.”
“Not a bad "dogfooding" effort as we normally do this kind of pre-release testing inside the 4 walls of Microsoft and can never get that scale.”
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bkerr's Words
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beastly verbs
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squirrel away, worm it out of so..., pony up, fish for compliments, weasel out, badger, outfox, horse around, hound, cow, chicken out, goose and 99 more...
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computer words
computer, floppy disk, keyboard, feed, memex, recursive, kernel, debug, dogfooding, bootstrapping, ansible
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seanahan I've heard dogfooding used particularly in Redmond Washington. Dec 12, 2006
edwardvielmetti to eat your own dogfood is to run production systems on beta code. you find and fix errors faster that way, so the story goes.
if you're really brave you run on alpha code.
see also bootstrapping Dec 12, 2006