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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.
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.
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.
This might be the best description of a good game QA that I've ever read
Given most AI are trained on datasets mined from the deepest public cesspits of the internet... that is a bet I'd be wary of making.
Nah. Stupid is "button mashing" with no intent. Professionally stupid is button mashing cover and equipping a weapon while switching to third person thereby storing your coordinates so that when you re-enter first person it moves you to those stored coordinates. If you lock your coordinates on an inside map then re-enter first person outside it moves you to the center of the map. That's how speed runners beat the game on 40 minutes.
That's the kind of incomprehensible thinking AI is best at
Then please, show us an example of AI doing effective QA, should be trivial!
That's a sickass job
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.
Sorry, which job are we talking about again?
I think porn star. He said he gets paid as "Absolute Dick". Which is a porn name if I ever heard one.
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.
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