dogfood

2 definitions found

dogfood - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  eating one's own dogfood
  dogfood
  dogfooding
  eating your own dogfood
  
     <programming> When a developer uses their own code for their
     own daily needs.  Being a user as well as a developer creates
     the user empathy that is the hallmark of good software.
  
     The term seems to have originated at Microsoft.
  
     (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/04/16.html)
  
     (2006-12-12)
  

dogfood - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  dogfood
   n.
  
     [Microsoft, Netscape] Interim software used internally for testing.
     "To eat one's own dogfood" (from which the slang noun derives) means
     to use the software one is developing, as part of one's everyday
     development environment (the phrase is used outside Microsoft and
     Netscape). The practice is normal in the Linux community and
     elsewhere, but the term `dogfood' is seldom used as open-source betas
     tend to be quite tasty and nourishing. The idea is that developers
  who
     are using their own software will quickly learn what's missing or
     broken. Dogfood is typically not even of beta quality.