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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

Testing on other mobile platforms

As previously mentioned, these are not the only mobile platforms. The other most significant mobile platform is Amazon. while its OS is based on Android, it does have its own devices and its own app store.

Amazon is predominant in the USA and even if it doesn’t have such a big chunk of market share as Google Play and Apple’s App Store, it has significant revenue and almost half a million available apps to download. Amazon users are also known as very good spenders, and generally spend more than even Apple users. Developing for the Amazon platform is relatively easy as it’s based on Android, but, of course, Amazon has its own set of requirements that need to be met in order to publish games on its platform.

There are other significant mobile platform stores owned by phone manufacturers. The most significant ones are the following:

  • Samsung Store
  • Huawei AppGallery
  • TenCent MyApp (which is based on the QQ instant...