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bbfef906 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @misterjesus @Shadowman311 Entirely different experiences I'd imagine, your stuff has to actually work and is important. Mine has to seem like it works. Sometimes.
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misterjesus | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You will be surprised at how shoddy most software is. Automated testing, version control, CI/CD etc. were until recently pretty niche.
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bbfef906 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @misterjesus @Shadowman311 

I think the worst I've ever seen is star trek online. Supposedly even professional devs they bring in have trouble figuring out how that thing runs and it's been a big issue for the company. I took a crack at it and I can't even figure out how the game knows what map to load
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misterjesus | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The same stuff happens in a lot of monolithic applications.

Suppose I had access to the source. I would stick logging statements everywhere in the source and run the thing in debug with a `tail -f` on a file (or whatever the equivalent is on Windows). 

Or I would try to break the game by removing code until something didn't work.

You just have to think of a way to isolate the problem. Once you can do that you can normally figure out what is happening.