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Ive had this experience with team-specific vocab where certain terms organically end up having terms with two or more conflicting meanings and it was horrendous. It led to all sorts of bugs, misunderstandings and even arguments.

Even worse, most people didnt realize there was a problem coz they always knew what they meant.

The only time I managed to work past it was by convincing everyone to never use that term again - burning it to the ground - and agreeing to replace it with two or more new, unambiguous terms.

Id love to burn "unit test" and "integration test" to the ground but nobody outside my team listens to me :)

Id probably replace them with:

* code coupled

* interface coupled

* high level

* low level

* xUnit

* faked infrastructural

* deployed infrastructural

* hermetic / non hermetic

* declarative / non declarative


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