The value generated by running code in a test. If this matches the
expected result, the test passes; if the
two are different, the test fails.
ttribut
A name-value pair associated with node in a DOM tree.
B
boilerplate
FIXME
boxing (a value)
FIXME
C
cognitive load
The mental effort required to solve a problem.
contract
FIXME
controller (in model-view-controller)
FIXME
cross validation
FIXME
D
document database
FIXME
ocument Object Mode (DOM)
A standard, in-memory representation of HTML.
Each element is stored as a node in a tree
with a set of named attributes.
E
lement (in HTML
A named component in an HTML document.
Elements are usually written <name>…</name>,
where "…" represents the content of the element.
Elements often have attributes.
error (result of test)
Signalled when something goes wrong in a unit test itself
rather than in the system being tested. In this case, we do not know
anything about the correctness of the system.
expected result (of test)
The value that a piece of software is supposed to produce when tested in a
certain way, or the state in which it is supposed to leave the system.
A simplified replacement for part of a program whose behavior is easy to
control and predict. Mock objects are used in unit tests to
simulate databases, web services, and other complex systems.
The replacement of the usual or standard base at one location in a gene sequence
with another base.
spread
To automatically match the values from a list or dictionary supplied by the caller
to the parameters of a function.
static site generator (SSG)
FIXME
template (for static site generator)
FIXME
theme (for static site generator)
FIXME
synthetic data generator
A tool that creates data with the same properties as real data,
usually for testing purposes.
T
term frequency - inverse document frequency (TF-IDF)
A formula used to rank documents when searching
that assigns a score based on how often a word occurs overall
and how specific it is to a particular document.
TOML
"Tom's Own Minimal Language" is yet another format for configuration files.
type annotation
FIXME
U
user ID (UID)
FIXME
unboxing (a value)
FIXME
unit test
A test that exercises one function or feature of a piece of software and
produces pass, fail, or error.
V
view (in model-view-controller)
FIXME
isito
A design pattern in which a recursive function visits each element of a structure
and performs some user-defined operation there.