A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wasteland and found 4 crashes in a single morning"

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• octobob@lemmy.ml ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I test and do QA on electrical industrial systems. The one older engineer told me sometimes he will roll a wrench across a keyboard to see how the system / code will react. The idea being someone in a steel mill might trip and land on the keyboard.

  Breaking things is the best way to test them

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• 7112@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would love to see an AI do my job. I am professionally stupid in a way that a machine could not even dream of.

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  • NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This might be the best description of a good game QA that I’ve ever read

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was a QA tester for a mobile game company back when feature phones had games. Some of the shit was silly like jumping against the left wall 300 times would crash the game, or rapidly putting the phone into and out of a faraday cage would crash the game.

  Any time we crashed the phone things got spicy, and we had special instructions to follow if we found a way to disrupt the micro cell in the office.

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  • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I also did that (and some development) and hated that basically every phone behaved differently, even sibling models from the same manufacturer. J2ME was a nice idea but every phone had different glitches. The emulators were shit. So we had almost all models of all major brands there and had to test everything on all of them.

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• FirmDistribution@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s a sickass job

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  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For every fun thing you get to test there are a dozen miserable little things that you get spend entire days plodding through. And they pay you absolute dick to do it.

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    • toynbee@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry, which job are we talking about again?

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  • Zugyuk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At the tester level it’s interesting, but past a year or two of experience it becomes more system integration and risk focused.

    Source: twenty years in the industry

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  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Seems fun until you find yourself playing the same 2 levels of “Barbie Horse Adventures” 40 hours a week (60+ during crunch) for 8 months.

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