The Ocelot Game

The ocelot game works like this: a developer has written a feature, and presents it to an ocelot. Not a real ocelot. Ocelots are playful. But they’re wild animals. Their claws easily poke holes in things. We want to poke holes in code. The ocelot is a role played by a developer who tries to poke holes in another developer’s code. Specifically, they try to change the code in such a way that the feature breaks while still passing the unit tests. ...

2024-09-11 · 5 min · 866 words · Thomas Cothran