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Modern Game Testing
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Modern Game Testing

by Nikolina Finska
July 2023
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
6h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Setting the Stage – Introduction to QA for Modern Games

At its core, quality assurance (QA) in game development isn’t much different from QA in other types of software. However, there are some QA testing aspects that are specific to games.

But, let’s first start by introducing how QA is done in modern games, when, and by whom? How is it organized in this extremely fast-paced industry? These are some of the questions we are going to answer in this chapter.

In this chapter, we will first discover the main differences between the testing of games and the testing of other types of software. Then, the reader will learn more about the importance of QA. Finally, we will go through a couple of real-world scenarios that showcase what can happen when ...

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ISBN: 9781803244402