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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT TOOLS DO YOU USE FOR DEBUGGING BOARD IMPLEMENTATIONS ? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is how i do it : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have made quite a few board implementation in the past years. Initially i used a custom made dirty Java-swing-visualizer. It was very usefull to get started, as we had the goal to reach the 20k simulation/s marks. We used not very user-readable structures, and so it was very helpfull for testing purposes. The java-swing-visualizer enabled me to visualize easily different views on the board-state. Later on, when switching to C and Assembly, i felt back on ASCII output. I would then scroll to find something worth finding. When working with those ASCII output, i had the most success by doing it with two phases. First phase i used a simple fixed sequence to verify that the structures where still coherent at the end of it. +*+*+ +*+*+ +*.*+ ++++ This shape was made up, move after moves, and positioned on an edge. Then black plays to capture the two white stones inside the shape, Then white play inside the eye, to capture black then black captures the white stone again. + represent white * represent black Then i would simply make random moves, and verify that all was going well (especially capture detection). usually i deactivated eye-filling-interdiction for this phase. It enable the board to loop a few times. I would then make 1000 moves, and check that everything was fine, even after the board had been wiped out a few time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT TOOLS DO YOU USE FOR DEBUGGING BOARD IMPLEMENTATIONS ? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Inédit ! Des Emoticônes Déjantées! Installez les dans votre Messenger ! http://www.ilovemessenger.fr/Emoticones/EmoticonesDejantees.aspx_______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
