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Re:Palm OS developer releases source to classic games, 20 ye... by pjmlp on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @02:08AM (#31749653)
Those games are written in C, and unit tests 30 years ago?!?

The only tests were actually playing the game, over and over again.

Re:Palm OS developer releases source to classic games, 20 ye... by blobbers on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:02PM (#31755916)
Can confirm! Palm devices were generally tested for things like memory leaks by just running them for a really long time.

1 phone call, 1 email per minute… for a week.

I wrote some core dump readers that would look for memory patterns in crashed devices for Palm back in the day, but our QA was largely manual testers. 5-6 QA folks for every dev.