Merge and Pray

Definitions

1. To merge code with insufficient confidence and then hope tests, deploys, or users do not reveal disaster. In engineering slang, merge and pray is what happens when review and understanding have not kept pace with pressure.

   In plain English: Merging code and hoping everything still works afterward.

   Example: "The team had slipped into merge and pray because the release date was fixed while the dependency graph and test flakiness still made local certainty hard to achieve."

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• Big Rewrite
• Bleeding Edge
• Blind Merge
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• Code Hazard
• Front Page Test
• Known Unknown
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