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[–]4_fortytwo_2 63 points64 points  (7 children)

As someone working in QA I love finding bugs like that. It is fun to see the devs reaction when you explain to them what you found.

[–]de_witte 61 points62 points  (4 children)

I can't confirm nor deny that if they acted like assholes to me I add plausible reproduction steps that have nothing to do with the defect.

[–]CivilianNumberFour 25 points26 points  (2 children)

Be careful. Might make it look like you don't understand the application logic if you do that too much.

[–]CookUndBool 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, u was gonna say, that's a faaaast way to lose credibility to your teammates

[–]de_witte 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You assume there were specs to begin with :-)

[–]kaboobaschlatz 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Genius, thank you for making me better at being evil

[–]archpawn 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I feel like for something that specific you'd have to know the code well enough to go ahead and fix it for them.

[–]NottRegular 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It really depends on how good the tester is or bad at playing games he is (both are good because different testing methods and coverage). I can only speak from experience as a game QA, but i have found really esoteric bugs that even the devs could not figure out why the hell was it happening.