Definition:
- verb
- Acronym for Just Add New Garbage Ignoring Tests. A way for CowboyCoding to circumvent ExtremeProgramming.
- adjective or past tense
- JANGed
Common usages:
- They need this fix in production tonight, can I JANG IT?
- Hey, this number is double what it should be in the production DB, let's JANG IT by 0.5!
Alternate forms:
- JANG-NAB-IT!
- Explicative uttered by XP programmers when encountering JANGed code.
- JANGhaied
- The act of copying a method from a class where it has a unit test, to another class where it is not tested. Usage: JANG-NAB-IT! Some JANGmeister has JANGhaied this method!!
- JANG-IB
- Just Add New Garbage, Ignoring (even the) Build --JeffBay
- JANGmeister
- a.k.a. Cowboy Coder
- Jangxiety
- the unpleasant emotional state consisting of psychophysiological responses to anticipation of unreal or imagined JANGing, ostensibly resulting from unrecognized inter-programmer conflict. Physiological concomitants include increased heart rate, altered respiration rate, sweating, trembling, weakness, and uncontrollable running of unit tests; psychological concomitants include feelings of impending acceptance test failure, powerlessness, apprehension, and tension.
- Jangster
- One who uses threats, physical force, or verbal violence to enforce Cowboy Coding practices.
- Jangucopia
- A project which uses traditional software methodologies.
- j'angsaisquois
- (zhang-say-kwa) A French word used to describe an elusive quality associated with software that seems impossible to adequately test.
- Jangst
- That feeling that there must be more to life than computers when you work with jangsters.
- (d)Jango
- The art of french jazz-playing Gypsy coding --StevePurcell
- Grappelli
- The art of cleaning up after french jazz-playing Gypsy coding --VanCurtis?
(If `jangster' is the name you call someone who [discourages unit testing], then what do you call someone who uses name calling to enforce unit testing?)
Janga Fett : One known throughout a universe far far away as a cowboy coder.
Also, changing a production GemStone database through an inspector window with no audit trail what so ever.
Self-referential cousin of the kludge?
This can be applied to your software process, as well as directly to the software. E.G., make the developers fill out a text field in your bug database in a particular format rather than adding the appropriate fields.
See FudgeFactor, SelfInvalidatingModel, CodingByCoincidence?
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