Talk:Pre-flight (printing)

Should it be "pre-flight" or "preflight"???

'Preflighting' is also a computer term

The term 'pre flight' is also used in software construction and quality assurance - it is the practice of taking proposed code changes and doing a test integration with the existing codebase. You integrate the changes somewhere safe (i.e. on a test machine, not in your production environment) and then run your sniff test/unit test suite to see if anything breaks. If things break, don't check in the code. If everything looks okay, then you can merge the proposed changes into the codebase.

Some sample links:

• http://www.ddj.com/development-tools/210601879
• http://www.agilejournal.com/content/view/820/193/

Preflight code systems can be used as part of continuous integration.

Does anyone have objections to creating a Pre-flight (computing) article to talk about the specifics? Or do you think this is better served by putting the computing info on this page and just talking about the different types of pre-flight systems? If you think pre-flight code testing is not that notable, the second might be a better option. We might have to change this article to talk about 'pre-flight' checks in a more abstract way, however. --Culix (talk) 06:29, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

article appears to have formatting issues or inappropriate content in the main article

I don't know the conventions so am loath to remove -- but the article appears to have meta-information displayed in its body. Can't tell whether this is due to mis-formatted markup or whether it was placed there by mistake. does not appear to be malicious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.103.213.26 (talk) 19:46, 16 July 2012 (UTC)