Also the concept of "ducking" comes to mind, from the story of the guy who would talk to a rubber duck while debugging. A former colleague took this to whole ne

Also the concept of "ducking" comes to mind, from the story of the guy who would talk to a rubber duck while debugging. A former colleague took this to whole new levels and would implement unit tests that would deliberately fail and print "Quack" to the terminal as a way of forcing QA to actually execute tests.