Game Testing All in One (Game Development Series) - Softcover

Schulz, Charles M.; Bryant, Robert; Langdell, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592003737 ISBN 13: 9781592003730

Publisher: Premier Press, 2005

Synopsis

The subject of game testing has remained largely unpublished as the game industry has exploded over the past couple of years. "Game Testing All in One" focuses on testing fundamentals, including how to create a test plan as well as how to set up a test case tree. It walks the reader through game testing basics, including topics like artificial intelligence, performance, and collision. It explores each of the major game genres and discusses key elements to consider when testing. This book also provides strategies to find job testing games, enabling the reader to walk away with a fundamental understanding of how the game industry works from the test perspective.

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Review

There is one thing about game testing that is radically different from regular app testing: Its intensely pragmatic focus. All game testing cares about is what you test and how. Long digressions on the differences between unit test, integration tests, and UATs as well as configuring them to run on CI platforms are dreadfully off-target. The principal question is how to run enough different scenarios to assure yourself that the game is thoroughly tested. This book dives into this area and comes up with formulas for generating the minimum number of test cases using combinatorial factors and test flow diagrams. It also shows how to write and run the tests, do walkthroughs, use quality checklists, and assess this data in the context of an overarching QA plan.Ad hoc testing, gameplay testing, capture and playback are also explained. Finally, the authors show how to put these tests and test results into a regression suite for subsequent reuse. There is no doubt that the techniques illustrated here are useful to mobile developers in non-game contexts; that is, as part of the testing of straight UI interaction. The book is entirely hands on, it rings of the authors experience, and is eminently readable. In all important ways, a breath of fresh air in the literature on software testing. Highly recommended. "

Synopsis

Focuses on testing fundamentals, including how to create a test plan as well as how to set up a test case tree. It walks the reader through game testing basics, including topics such as artificial intelligence, performance and collision.

Edition details

• Publisher: Premier Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592003737
• ISBN 13: 9781592003730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416