Does anyone have any other successors to foo and bar? Mine have always been bis buz baz, but I don't know if they're canonical or if I just made up the next words in the sequence.
I don’t know how I started this but I’ve used the following since before I had a beard:
foo/bar/baz/bing/bang/bong
Once in a while I’ll throw “biz” in after baz. I suspect the bar/baz pairing felt like alliteration to me and I extended it.
I’ve never used it in production code of course, but I have in tests. For string interpolation or parsing tests you tend to need a lot of variables or values and you don’t care what the variable means you just want the right ones placed in or extracted from the correct spots.
In particular if the rest of the data looks legit and the bits sunstituted looks like gibberish, I find it makes the red tests’ failure message quicker to read.
