Defect Analysis

World of Warcraft Patch Notes


World of Warcraft is the top mmorpg in the world right now; it has about 6.1 million subscribers. With that many concurrent players there’s bound to bugs that the QA team missed. So what Blizzard does is they produce incremental patches that deal with bugs and sometimes add content on top of that.

We’re going to take a look at patch 2.0.7 released on February 13, 2007
The link below shows the complete patch notes

http://www.worldofwar.net/patches/2-0-7.php


These are some of the bugs found by the Blizzard team.

Art:
PVP flags and graveyard nodes can no longer be captured through collision.


Sound/Music:
The Crust Bruster has had a loot icon and sound change.
Fixed the local defense channel so that it will properly change based on the player's zone.


Development:
20 slot bags are now bind on pick-up.
The Crust Bruster has had a loot icon and sound change.
When sharing a quest, the order logic has changed to check whether or not the player has completed or is ineligible for the quest before checking whether their quest log is full.
Players are no longer able to accept the quest "The Opening of the Dark Portal" while the Black Morass encounter is engaged.
Attempting to prospect less than 5 pieces of ore will no longer cause a game crash. (Spanish Only).

These are just a couple of bugs produced by WoW. One thing that needs to be kept in mind is that WoW is being tested constantly by the live customers and if a serious bug is found they usually hot patch it. Since the game is so big and dynamic most of the bugs caught are by the end users. Blizzard does have a dedicated public test server but sometimes bugs still slip through. Since WoW has been out for over 2 years there really isn’t any sound or graphical bugs. The serious terrain bugs are still there but its hard to pinpoint all the positions that produce the bug.