Re:Null
by capableweb on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:35AM
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This even has a name, "monkey testing". Basically some software that pretends to be a monkey in front of a computer and mashes random buttons and keys to make the application behave badly. Usually you only care about the application not breaking in monkey tests. Can be used similarly to "fuzzing" but for UIs as well, see Gremlins.js: https://marmelab.com/blog/2020/06/02/gremlins-2.html
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Re:Null
by sethammons on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:59AM
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This is how, at age 12 or so, I discovered in the old Windows game “Chip’s Challenge” that you could cheat and unlock (nearly all) levels.
If you tried ctrl+n (I think), you could advance to the next level, but only if you had beaten the current level or had the pass code for the level. In a bout of frustration, I rando-mashed the keyboard and advanced to the next level, and could then ctrl+n to the last level! I could reproduce the effect, but never worked out the actual combination that unlocked it. Good times :)