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Modern Game Testing

You're reading from Modern Game Testing Learn how to test games like a pro, optimize testing effort, and skyrocket your QA career

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803244402

Length 232 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Game Design

Authors (2):

Kalle Kaivola

Nikolina Finska

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Game Testing Foundation

2. Chapter 1: Setting the Stage – Introduction to QA for Modern Games FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: All Engines Go – The Basics of Game QA

4. Chapter 3: A Deeper Look – Types of Testing in Games

5. Chapter 4: Deeper Look – Testing on Various Gaming Platforms – Mobile, PC, and Console

6. Chapter 5: It Must Be Hardware: Testing Hardware in Modern Game QA

7. Part 2: Test Strategy and Execution

8. Chapter 6: Friend or Foe – Test Cases

9. Chapter 7: It Works on My Machine: Bug Flow

10. Chapter 8: I Thought I Fixed That: How to Write Efficient Bug Reports

11. Chapter 9: It Works, but It Hasn’t Been Tested: Testing Approach

12. Chapter 10: Eat, Sleep, Test, Repeat: Test Methodology

13. Part 3: Test Management and Beyond

14. Chapter 11: Are You on the Right Version? Live Ops and QA

15. Chapter 12: Beyond Testing – Introduction to Test Management

16. Chapter 13: There Are No BUGS Without U – QA and the Game Team

17. Index

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Strategies for dealing with new code

In game development, especially when working with live ops, we deal with new code relatively often. Depending on the number of changes and, subsequently, new code that was implemented, we need to adjust our strategies to be able to successfully test those changes in a fast-paced environment. Here are some of the tips that will help you pick the right approach.

Start your testing with mainstream tests first. Those are the tests that cover basic functionality or optimal player path. These tests are usually simple and easy to understand, and if they fail, it would be taken as a serious problem. You want to find those bugs as early as possible in the development cycle.

At first, test broadly rather than deeply. This is particularly useful when we have no information about new code and we are unaware of any risks. Covering a wide area of the game will help us prioritize future testing and help us find the most risk-prone areas. This approach to...

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Authors (2)

Finska

Finska

Nikolina Finska is a Gaming industry Veteran and QA guru with over ten years of expertise in the game sector and another 10 in the software industry. She was nominated for ‘Tester of the Year' by the Finnish Testing Association for her contributions to QA methods. She has worked on over 20 games and was in charge of quality assurance on various Angry Birds franchise games. She has done practically every type of QA in the past, from localization to live OPS, on a variety of platforms, including massive databases, the web, and every imaginable gaming platform. She is also a guest lecturer for QA and Production at various Finnish universities like Amiedu and KAMK.

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