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> It's just that there are more descriptive and neutral terms available to us, so why not use them?

"quick test" does not convey what is usually intended with "sanity test". The intention of the latter is to verify that a base set of assumptions hold true whereas "quick test" can be just about anything.




"quick test" would mean QuickCheck, property-based testing, to me.

Let's keep "sanity test".




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