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𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐦 𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞

So, as far as game development goes, I still like QA work better than developing. Software testing is fun when I can simply focus on bugs and tracking them. Its like a skill based puzzle for me because some bugs are obvious but others you need to have a good understanding of the software to find. This is especial the case with edge case bugs. (ooh that gives me an idea for a bug hunting hidden object game. )

Today while troubleshooting a function in my code and testing the fixes, I found a funny bug. The test puzzle had Banana on the word list and no matter how many times I tried to select it, the puzzle didn't recognize the word. I was confused because that part of the code hadn't been worked on and was running fine just one change before.... Then I saw it.

That line had the letters BANANAB in a row. I had a one in a million chance to catch a palindrome combination of letters like this. But once I did run into the bug, I learned that my code doesn't properly handle having more than one correct direction like this. There were two correct ways to highlight the word banana but only one was considered correct by the logic.

This is why testing matters and why your test data is important. How you set up your tests and your test data can make all of the difference between smoking out bugs and shipping them so that the end users are left to find them. This is also why my test puzzles are set up to test specific scenarios not just that the puzzle allows word searching

However, I threw this one onto the bug list to be fixed at a later time... Unfortunately, I don't consider it a critical bug at this time because I have much higher priority fixes to make. 😅 But it was amusing.

𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦, 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘶𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴?

As always, I am on the hunt for a new job opportunity, preferably as a software tester or an entry level Narrative Designer. 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛, 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩, 𝐨𝐫 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐭.

Have a great day everybody.