eat one's own dog food

Meaning: (computing,slang)To useproductsorservicesone is selling internally, in order to understand their limitations.Synonym:dogfood2004, Avram Joel Spolsky,Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity, Apress,→ISBN, page223:AOL was signing up members at a furious rate, in part because it provided abetter user experiencethan Juno, and we didn't understand that, because we didn'teat our own dog food.2012, Dorothy Graham, Mark Fewster,Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation, Addison-Wesley Professional,→ISBN, page53:As with most Microsoft product teams, weeat our own dog food.; (idiomatic)To use or consume the economicgoodsorservicesthat one is producing; to be part of aclosed household economy.

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