Risk-based testing
Risk-based testing is one of the most valuable tools in any tester’s arsenal, regardless of which development framework we use. But it’s agile and live ops where it really shines, and it’s always a staple of quality assurance (QA) efforts. We often do risk-based testing without even realizing that we are using a specific methodology. Whenever we approach the game from a player-focused angle and ask ourselves, “How will this affect the player?”, we are doing some sort of risk testing.
Of course, risk-based testing also has its standard rule and best practices. While we already touched briefly on risk-based testing in Chapter 9, It Works, but It Hasn’t Been Tested; here, we will dwell a bit longer on this methodology and how to use it in an optimal manner.
The efficiency of risk-based testing is highly dependent on the initial risk analysis. For that reason, it is important to do risk analysis in a way that is optimal...
