The Butterfly
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**Definition:**

* You have to test something which contains data that changes all the time, like a structure which contains the current date, and there is no way to nail the result down to a fixed value. The ugly part is that you don't care about this value at all. It just makes your test more complicated without adding any value.

**Also Known As:**

* Sensitive Equality

**References:**

.. admonition:: Quality attributes

    * :octicon:`file-code;1em` -  Code Example
    * :octicon:`comment-discussion;1em` -  Cause and Effect
    * :octicon:`graph;1em` -  Frequency
    * :octicon:`sync;1em` -  Refactoring

* `Unit testing Anti-patterns catalogue <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/333682/unit-testing-anti-patterns-catalogue>`_