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Test case (n).

1. Law. A lawsuit where the specific facts at hand serve as a vehicle to examine issues and principles that reach more broadly.
2. Computing. A small, controlled experiment you run against your own code, testing a set of inputs to see what outputs they yield.
3. Colloquial. An idea that serves as an experiment to inform future work—"Let's try it here as a test case, and see how it goes."

I'm Danny Wilf-Townsend, an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law. This is my blog.