Game Testing: All in One

by Charles P. Schultz, Robert Denton Bryant

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781942270768
Publisher:	Mercury Learning and Information
Publication date:	10/06/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	500
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Schultz Charles P. :
Charles P. Schultz is a Microsoft Certified Educator, ASTQB certified Tester, and author of more than 20 US patents.

Bryant Robert Denton :
Robert Denton Bryant rose through the ranks as a game tester to produce dozens of video games over a 20-year career. He is director of the Interactive Games Studies program at St. Edward's Universityin Austin, Texas.

Table of Contents

1. Two Rules of Game Testing.
2. Being a Game Tester.
3. Why Testing is Important.
4. Software Quality.
5. The Test Process.
6. Testing by the Numbers.
7. Combinatorial Testing.
8. Test Flow Diagrams.
9. Cleanroom Testing.
10. Test Trees.
11. Play Testing & Ad Hoc Testing.
12. Defect Triggers
13. Capture / Playback Testing.
Appendices.

Editorial Reviews

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.

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