auto discovery

LinuxPlanet: avahi is installed by default on Debian and Ubuntu systems, but few people seem to use it to any extent.

It's supposed to be a service auto-discovery, but what services exactly is it set up to discover? Juliet Kemp figures out if she can actually make it do something she wants it to do."

IBM Developerworks: "Here we look at how the leading testing frameworks provide robust auto-discovery of your application tests, and how this replaces the fragile central lists of tests that you used to maintain."