Hello. It is currently 2:30 am and
I am preparing for our nightly stress test of Deep space exile. I thought nothing of it
but some people expressed interest.
At apx 2 am every night we start to
wrap up what ever project we are in the middle of even if not
finished.
As soon as we get everything 'stable'
we compile the game and launch it. We run a few quick test to make
sure everything is acting as it should (ai's fighting/ gathering/
trading) and we go to sleep. After the game has been running for at
least six hours we return and check the error log, check CPU usage
and check memory usage.
Due to the nature of the game we
always expect some increase in memory usage but wish to see nothing
to crazy. An example of this happened several days ago, When we left
the game was using 60 MB of ram when we returned we were hovering at
apx 1.5 GB.
The nightly test allows us to quickly
find troubles as changes are fresh in our minds. The idea is that by
doing long run nightly test will reduce the debug effort needed later
on. When several small bugs pile on top of each other the task of
solving them becomes much more difficult.
I hope this information was useful for
those who asked.
