What exactly is that? (Destiny)

by Earendil, Thursday, December 18, 2014, 15:20 (3409 days ago) @ Kahzgul

I know what a "professional tester" is, or quality engineer as most like to be called. But what does it mean to be a beta tester professionally?

I'm just a regular own desktop software engineer, where the question of input, output, and state are difficult to test completely, but do-able. The combinations that a game like Destiny has is near infinite.

This board also seems to mistake "knowing a bug exists" with "Fixing a bug that exists". Knowing a problem is not the same as knowing a solution, which is especially not the same as knowing the RIGHT solution.

I can fully imagine that Bungie knew this existed, knew the fix would be tedious, so they shipped it instead of delaying the update by a month.

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You need better testers Bungie - Cody Miller, 2014-12-18, 09:24
- You need better testers Bungie - iconicbanana, 2014-12-18, 09:26
  - You need better testers Bungie - Cody Miller, 2014-12-18, 09:27
    - You need better testers Bungie - bluerunner, 2014-12-18, 09:37
      - You need better testers Bungie - Cody Miller, 2014-12-18, 09:39
        
        You need better testers Bungie - Revenant1988, 2014-12-18, 09:42
        
        You need better testers Bungie - ZackDark, 2014-12-18, 09:45
        
        You need better testers Bungie - Cody Miller, 2014-12-18, 09:54
    - So you really DO go looking for things to complain about! :p - Ragashingo, 2014-12-18, 12:21
- I'm just curious - kidtsunami, 2014-12-18, 09:54
  - I'm just curious - ZackDark, 2014-12-18, 10:45
    - I'm just curious - Revenant1988, 2014-12-18, 10:48
      - My GF would like that - unoudid, 2014-12-18, 11:09
        
        I lol'd - ZackDark, 2014-12-18, 11:13
        
        I lol'd - Revenant1988, 2014-12-18, 11:15
        
        I lol'd - Cody Miller, 2014-12-18, 11:31
        
        If you could get all your daily grind from shooting a blank - scarab, 2014-12-18, 12:12
    - I'm just curious - Earendil, 2014-12-18, 15:14
      - Of course - ZackDark, 2014-12-18, 17:56
  - I'm just curious - stabbim, 2014-12-18, 12:09
- I used to be a professional beta tester - Kahzgul, 2014-12-18, 13:39
  - I used to be a professional beta tester - Cody Miller, 2014-12-18, 14:25
  - I used to be a professional tester, and programmer - kidtsunami, 2014-12-18, 14:54
    - I used to be a professional tester, and programmer - Cody Miller, 2014-12-18, 15:54
    - Off-Topic - RaichuKFM, 2014-12-19, 09:17
      - +1 - ZackDark, 2014-12-20, 02:19
  - What exactly is that? - Earendil, 2014-12-18, 15:20
    - Software Devs are the new recall specialists - iconicbanana, 2014-12-18, 15:25
      - Seems quite different to me - Earendil, 2014-12-18, 15:32
        
        >_< - iconicbanana, 2014-12-18, 15:37
        
        >_< - Earendil, 2014-12-18, 15:39
        
        >_< - iconicbanana, 2014-12-18, 15:41
        
        >_< - Blackt1g3r, 2014-12-19, 08:10
  - Oh thank god - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 10:03
    - Oh thank god - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-19, 11:24
      - Oh thank god - Leviathan, 2014-12-19, 14:38
- YOU don't know what you're talking about. - Grizzlei, 2014-12-18, 16:02
- This might be BS - someotherguy, 2014-12-19, 02:05
- You need better testers Bungie - Pfhor, 2014-12-19, 05:08

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