It Compiles Ship It

Definitions

1. A mocking phrase for treating successful compilation as enough evidence that code is ready to release. In engineering slang, it criticizes teams that confuse one basic gate with actual confidence.

   In plain English: A bad habit of shipping code just because it compiles.

   Example: "The outage proved why 'it compiles ship it' was never a serious quality strategy for a change touching data migrations and retry logic."

Related Terms

• Alpha Release
• Sad Path
• Commit and Run
• Deploy and Disappear
• Dry Run
• Fix It in Post
• Hit and Run
• Mock the Clock
• Quality Gate Slang
• Smoke Test Slang
• Snapshot Slang