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QA 101: How to write awesome Test Cases
In our last article, How to create a Test Suite, we focused on creating test suites for a game project. We put together an outline of features that we should…
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QA101: How to create a Test Suite
Put on your lab coats, because today the QA101 series is going to get practical. No more theory, we’re going to look into the process of writing test suites! If…
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QA101: How to Design your Test Cases and Test Suites
So you’re working through the test process. You've gotten through the initial planning and information collection. You can now move on to the design stage and begin devising the testing…
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QA101: How to Create a Plan for Video Game Testing
In our last article, we outlined the entire Test Process and gave an overview of the included stages. But you may be wondering what each part represents in more detail.…
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QA101: The 5 Main Stages of Test Process
Picture the scene. You’re on the QA team of a big new game project. Development is coming along well and they've hired you to help manage the quality of the…
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QA101: How to use the 7 Testing Principles in Video Game QA
The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) is a certification board for gaining software testing credentials. Since 2004, almost 1 million professionals have taken their exams making it one of…
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QA101: Dissecting bugs, The 3 factors of a Video Game Glitch
There are many different names for problems found in video games. Bugs, glitches, issues, defects, crashes, hangs. Some will be regularly used by players and some only by a development…
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QA101: What is the Difference Between Testing and Debugging?
We've already covered what testing is and why it's necessary during game development, but have you ever heard about debugging and wonder how it relates? The phrases are often thrown…
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QA101: Are Quality Assurance and Testing the same thing?
You may have heard different titles for people working within QA. Game Tester, Quality Assurance Engineer, Quality Designer; the list goes on! But what do these titles actually mean? Some…
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QA101: What is Video Game Testing?
It seems like such a simple question, but it is always useful to go right back to basics. So let's answer the question: What is video game testing? Most people…