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Naming your library "data-testing-library" would be useful... until there's a second one at which point the specific name effectively becomes meaningless.

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Case in point: @testing-library (the JS one for React, Vue, etc.)

Besides, this type of overly generic names makes it harder to search relevant stuff, which makes them more annoying to me than silly names.

They also make things hard to talk about. When you mention testing library in an ordinary conversation without @ signs and dashes, people won't know whether you're talking about the concept of a testing library or a specific one.

The other day I was trying to tell someone to use prettier, the specific program, and they thought I meant the generic concept of code formatters

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