React 16: A look inside an API-compatible rewrite of our Frontend UI Library As the name suggests, the word means “dog food”.
So I translated it with Google, and the result was “internal test”.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the allusion to the word.
This idiom is Eating your own dog food, but it is often abbreviated to Dogfooding.
In 1988, Microsoft executive Paul Maritz wrote “Eating our own Dogfood” in an email to a test supervisor, according to Networld magazine. Then Dogfooding spread throughout IT circles, and the tech world as a whole.
Why do Microsoft executives eat their own dog food? Why did Dogfooding become an internal test?
This allusion was not originally invented in the IT field, according to the editors of the Software Journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, published in issue 23, 2006, ISSN 07440-7459. If you don’t know the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, you’ve probably heard of the acronym IEEE.
In the 1980s, when Alpo was filming a TV commercial for his dog food, actress Lorne Greene said she used Alpo’s dog food at home, not just when she was performing, according to the magazine’s editor. So people refer to their company’s use of a product they developed as Dogfooding. For example, “In order to challenge the safety of Baidu’s driverless cars, Robin Li asked engineers to stop and test them.”
But according to the editor, the general manager of the Kal Kan pet food company is said to eat a can of his company’s dog food at the annual shareholders’ meeting. In order to promote their products are also struggling.
If the company is going to get customers to buy its products, it must at least be willing to use them.
“Effective immediately!” Wrote Michael Scott, president of Apple Computer, in a 1980 memo. Don’t buy or rent any more typewriters.” By January 1, 1981, he announced that he would eliminate all typewriters in the company and replace them with computers.
Start with Eating your own dog Food.