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Dummy Something that features certain aspects of a real object that require repeated or straining exposure to testing, but does not feature certain other aspects of a real object that would pose a problem to such testing; outstanding features of test dummies are increased availability and decreased cost over the real object; examples are test dummies for physical tests such as car crashes, falls, fracture testing, firearm shots or imaging methods.In the software industry, the practice of removing all references to a particular object or feature that won't be part of the final product, but leaving the actual code as part of the program, in order to avoid creating new bugs.This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.