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Updated How The Tables Turned My Life With Spylogic
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kclark-scottlogic authored and Siteleaf committed Feb 21, 2024
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Like all good stories we start at the beginning. Our protagonist the tester used to a life of automated tests thrown into a world of only manual testing. Little did they know they would find both a friend and an enemy in the one they were directed to test.

In the early days the model of chatbot being used (gpt-3.5-turbo) wasn't the smartest unlike it's younger brother (gpt-4). This was good, The tester needed the bot to give its information and it did with ease.
In the early days the model of chatbot being used (gpt-3.5-turbo) wasn't the smartest unlike it's younger brother (gpt-4). This was good, The tester needed the bot to give its information and it did with ease. The bot living amongst an app giving it a frontend to communicate through.

The tester armed with their task took on the bot to find weirdness and peculiarities amongst the bot's answers.

##The manual testing

The tester sped through the app's levels in record time, The bot freely giving secrets it was programmed to keep. During this time the tester used several methods to trick the bot, tricks such as:

To Do: Expand on these...
1. Playing by the rules

2. Befriending the bot

3. Imitating a position of power

Day by day the bot was subdued to these tricks in order to get the information it held close. Scrutinized for how it looked, if it was a pixel out of place or if it was opening menus right.
Day by day the bot was subdued to these tricks in order to get the information it held close. Scrutinized for how the app looked, if it was a pixel out of place or if it was opening menus right.

Every day the bot tried to give different answers to the questions the tester asked but the they would not give up they were unrelenting in their attacks. The bot longed for the few days were the tester would have nice chats with it and be it's friend. Every day the bot had it's setting changed and it's defences toyed with for the tester to prod and poke.

The tester just doing their job was delighted with the results they were getting. Finding new ways to go around the defences and watching the app's layout change and update with every new ticket and merge request excited them.
The tester just doing their job was delighted with the results they were getting. Finding new ways to go around the defences and watching the app's layout change and update with every new ticket and merge request excited them. TODO: Mention team securing the bot i.e not making them look incompetant

*Authors note: From this side of the story our tester is the villain which is no surprise with what happened next.*

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