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A toggle can also be a piece of metal or other material that is passed transversely through a hole or loop in a chain, rope, etc., as to bind it temporarily. The word is derived from the English verb toggle, meaning &#8220;to pass transversely through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a user interface it&#8217;s important for users to understand how to use toggle switches. They should be clearly labeled and positioned within an accessible area of the screen. It&#8217;s also helpful to use visual cues, such as movement and color, to indicate when a toggle is changing states.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also important to be able to test the toggles in your application. This can be accomplished through a variety of means from simple commenting to leveraging preprocessor features, such as #ifdef, to dynamically re-configure service instances. While these methods are useful they can have a significant impact on the cycle time of your testing and validation process, especially when working with Experiment Toggles or other toggles that may need to be re-deployed multiple times during an experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Savvy teams view their Feature Toggles as inventory that comes with a carrying cost and seek to keep the amount of toggles in their codebase to a minimum. 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