Modern Game Testing: Learn how to test games like a pro, optimize testing effort, and skyrocket your QA career

Implement modern and agile QA practices to ensure your games are high quality, on budget, and released on time

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Key Features:

• Set up a test environment, create test plans, and learn to communicate with developers
• Discover how to build efficient QA teams either in-house or remotely
• Increase your chances of career advancement and your employability in the gaming industry

Book Description:

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.

What You Will Learn:

• Conduct compliance, regression, and localization tests, among others
• Build and optimize test sets for testing mobile games
• Find out how to set up an efficient bug flow
• Write optimal bug reports that differentiate between priority and severity
• Pick the optimal testing approach for each phase of game development
• Discover how to use equivalence partitioning, boundary analysis, and decision tables
• Master live ops QA and handle live bugs

Who this book is for:

This book is for game testers, game producers, game developers, testing managers, and other QA professionals who want to learn more about modern approaches to QA and utilizing them to build more efficient and cost-effective QA teams and products. Prior professional testing experience is desirable, either in software or games testing and/or experience working in the gaming industry. Basic familiarity with agile working practices such as scrum is needed to fully understand all the concepts explained in this book.

實施現代和靈活的QA實踐，以確保您的遊戲具有高品質、在預算範圍內並按時發布。

購買印刷版或Kindle書籍將包含免費的PDF電子書。

主要特點：
- 建立測試環境，創建測試計劃，並學會與開發人員溝通。
- 發現如何在內部或遠程建立高效的QA團隊。
- 提高在遊戲行業中的職業發展機會和就業能力。

書籍描述：
對於玩家來說，沒有什麼比遇到有錯誤的新遊戲更令人惱火的了。這通常導致負面評論，進而導致對您的遊戲的需求下降。解決方案在於更好的品質保證（QA）-《現代遊戲測試》將向您展示如何實現這一目標。無論您是新的測試人員、開發人員還是製作人，本書中展示的QA測試技術，使用現代方法和最新技術，將使您能夠按時、最重要的是在預算範圍內發布高品質的遊戲。

本書首先介紹了QA和在遊戲中執行的各種測試類型。然後，您將探索測試用例和錯誤報告，為不同平台（甚至是遊戲機和個人電腦）構建測試，以及LiveOps和測試管理。隨著您的進步，您將從頭開始建立一個QA團隊並與遠程QA測試人員合作。這些章節將幫助您以更傳統的方式學習課程，使您能夠研究現代敏捷方法和各種測試策略，然後採用它們。所有角度都有大量的示例，因此您將擁有實施QA策略所需的一切。

通過閱讀本書，您將清楚了解遊戲QA測試的現代方法，並能夠建立高效、可靠且持久的QA團隊。

學到的內容：
- 進行合規性、回歸和本地化測試等。
- 為測試手機遊戲建立和優化測試集。
- 找出如何建立高效的錯誤流程。
- 撰寫區分優先級和嚴重性的最佳錯誤報告。
- 選擇每個遊戲開發階段的最佳測試方法。
- 發現如何使用等價分割、邊界分析和決策表。
- 掌握LiveOps QA並處理實時錯誤。

本書適合遊戲測試人員、遊戲製作人、遊戲開發人員、測試經理和其他QA專業人員，他們希望了解更多關於現代QA方法並利用它們來建立更高效和具有成本效益的QA團隊和產品。具備專業測試經驗（無論是軟件還是遊戲測試）和/或在遊戲行業工作的經驗將更有優勢。對於完全理解本書中解釋的所有概念，需要對Scrum等敏捷工作方法有基本的熟悉。