hi, i'm not sure if what i'm asking here has been asked before.
i got into a discussion with a friend(programmer) recently.
we were playing a new game incorporated into a forum both of us were in and was put into beta testing.
as with any new games, there's bound to be bugs and he managed to find them.
he was happily playing with the game using the bug till confronted by the other members of the forum who were unhappy with his actions. he claimed that he was merely testing out the exploits to confirm them before reporting to the owner of the game.
if he were to just spawn 1 or 2 items, cash and increase the stat by a little for testing purposes, i'd take it that he is just trying to confirm the bugs but he went as far as too gaining the maximum amount of items, cash and increase his character till near invincible status.

is that still considered ethical?? even if he did report the bug later on to the owner??

sorry if everything is too confusing. my english isn't really that good.