Dealing with submissions
We mentioned submissions a couple of times throughout this book. They are an incredibly important part of game development in which QA can play a key role. Before we go further, let’s confirm what we mean by game submissions.
What are game submissions?
After the development and testing process is finalized, each game and game update needs to go through the process of submission to the target platform in order to be published to the stores and become available to the players. Under submissions, we consider the complete process before and after the actual act of submission to the platform, and it requires collaboration between multiple disciplines, including QA, any specialized submission teams, producers, the marketing team, and player support. The submission consists of numerous steps and activities that need to be executed before it can be considered done.
If we don’t fulfill all platform requirements correctly or make omissions in our...
