As someone who recently asked our QA team to change the name of one of our test suites from "sanity test" to "quick test", maybe I can provide some perspective.
Many software developers like me have faced challenges to our mental health.
Indeed, there has been a time or two when I questioned my own sanity. And perhaps the sanity of some of my colleagues!
It's not so much that there is something inherently wrong with the term "sanity check". We all know what it means. It's just that there are more descriptive and neutral terms available to us, so why not use them?
Many software developers like me have faced challenges to our mental health.
Indeed, there has been a time or two when I questioned my own sanity. And perhaps the sanity of some of my colleagues!
It's not so much that there is something inherently wrong with the term "sanity check". We all know what it means. It's just that there are more descriptive and neutral terms available to us, so why not use them?