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Modern Game Testing

By : Nikolina Finska
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Modern Game Testing

By: Nikolina Finska

Overview of this book

Few things are more annoying for gamers than encountering a buggy new game. This often leads to negative reviews, and in turn, you’ll find that demand for your games declines. The solution lies in better quality assurance (QA) – and Modern Game Testing will show you how to achieve just that. Whether you’re a new tester, developer or producer, the QA testing techniques shown in this book, using modern methodologies and the latest technology, will have you releasing quality games that are on time and, most importantly, on budget. The book begins by introducing you to QA and the various types of tests that are performed on games. You’ll then explore test cases and bug reporting, building tests for different platforms (even consoles and PCs), and LiveOps and test management. As you advance, you’ll build a QA team from scratch and work with remote QA testers. The chapters help you take a more traditional approach to learning lessons, enabling you to examine the modern agile approach and various testing strategies that you can then adopt. All angles are covered with oodles of examples, so you’ll have everything you need to implement QA strategies in your organization. By the end of this book, you’ll have a clear understanding of the modern methodologies of QA testing for games, and be able to build efficient, reliable, and long-lasting QA teams.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: Game Testing Foundation
7
Part 2: Test Strategy and Execution
13
Part 3: Test Management and Beyond

The future of game testing

We have arrived at the last part of this book. There is no better way to end this story than by providing the seeds for future ones. We will investigate the latest trends in technology, team organization, and the gaming industry in general, and analyze how they will affect the future of game testing.

These days, it looks like everyone is talking about AI. We can already use it for game art, marketing texts, game narration, and even coding. In the near future, we will probably see games out on the market that have been almost completely created by AI. With the growth of AI technology and the wide adoption of AI tools, we can expect that this is going to have a strong effect on test automation as well. The test automation of the future will become more sophisticated and be able to execute some of the tasks that right now, only humans can do. AI will be able to learn from testing experiences on its own and continuously improve its performance. With the advancements...