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No leaks there, just some dealloc hits..

To get really good data, the zone needs to run for quite a while and have various people doing random things in there. This ensures we are getting good code coverage execution....

Heres a short lesson in enterprise coding... skip this if you're not interested..
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For those that are new to code coverage, here's a lesson on it and what it means and why its important...

In enterprise development (real world coding), you have what are called test cases or use cases that are intended to ensure that your code is executing as is designed. Say a course of behavior for a client using an application.

1) Client logs in.
2) Client checks his inventory and rearranges several items
3) Client goes to a merchant and buys something
4) Client logs out..

This series of steps indicates a specific 'test case' . Only certain parts of the code were executed, hence you can only verify that certain pieces are working. Combat could be completely shot, but you will never know until it is tested. This requires you to have a combat test case. And combat itself could be broken down into melee and nonmelee (spell casting) tests cases, which could be further broken down. to ensure good code coverage and testing means you need extensive test cases to adequetely test all the different pieces of the code...

This is where semi randomized testing comes in. Randomized testing doesnt cover true test causes, but it does give you a good idea of where the bugs are because of the rather random behavior of the users, and is often the best way to catch 'off the path errors'

Using this approach, allow the server to run for a long time and having multiple people randomly exercise pieces of the code that you dont normally test yourself gives you a good idea of whats working and whats not. In the case here, this semi random use will help us to determine problems in pieces of the code that we dont normally test ourselves.

Thats why bug reports are so important to eqemu. Without standardized regression tests and base test cases, it falls upon the users to find problems that we ourselves dont catch.

One of the problems with standard test cases is they are usually 'golden path' test cases, which means someone testing when someone did something right, but what if someone does something wrong, did you test for that? Someone accidently does something they didnt mean too, like target themselves instead of a mob for a spell.. Results could be unpredictable if someone hasnt taken that into account in the code! Thats one of the reason that defualts in switch statements are so important, you always need catch all rules when things dont behave as you expect they should......