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We used to be able to just download an app. So how do we investigate this further? We need a way to access the actual icon image assets but without having access to any of the source files. Is this a problem on all 30+ Kroger apps? Not quite, but it is a problem on about 50% of them. When playing around with the main Kroger app I noticed the same thing happening with their blue Kroger app icon. So there must be something wrong with the app or icon asset. Why would it be doing that? There are plenty of other similar looking app icons with a logo on top of a white background but none of them seemed to exhibit the same banding behavior.

You should be able to see the thick grey banding on the bottom of the icon during the backgrounding animation. Here is the first issue that I noticed with the app icon. In the end though it's just a slightly humorous and educational project for me.

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That's really the essence of software 1's and 0's, true or false, right and wrong. I totally understand that most people who see the final icon comparisons will see no value and ask 'why would you waste your time on this'? That's totally fine and understandable but I'm a person who appreciates these big little details and am passionate about getting them right. Exercises like these help me understand more about the craft and give me more experience with various design tools. I also have secretly wanted to become a designer over the years. This is definitely not a high priority issue but I don't work there yet so I have no other tasks assigned to me. This project hopefully an example of the level of detail that I'm capable of. I believe that attention to detail is a critical trait that every great QE should have. It sounds like a ridiculous target but I got very close and may have actually exceeded that number. I thought it would be a little hilarious to see how close I could get to 75 bugs/improvements before even launching app. I'm a competitive person on occasion and I had this historical number of '75 bugs' floating around in my head and it seemed like a fun target. Just taking a quick glance at the icon I started to notice some other potential issues with it. I was curious about why it was happening and I had a hunch that I could fix it with a little more investigation. One bug that I had previously come across was this weird app icon distortion issue when backgrounding the app. The interviewers seemed pretty impressed by this and it's an amazing total but not that unrealistic for any app from a non-tech first company. One thing that was mentioned during the interview was that a previous QE there had handed over a packet of 75 bugs/improvements during their interview.

I really enjoyed meeting the team and wanted to continue my investigation to show just how eager I was to join the team. I had already started to investigate the Fred Meyer iOS app and compiled a list of bugs and improvements to reference in the interview but I didn't get a chance to go over everything that I uncovered.

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After recently interviewing at Kroger Digital (known as Fred Meyer in the northwestern region of the US) for a Quality Engineer role I had some free time over the Thanksgiving holiday for a side project.

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