{"id":2266,"date":"2025-03-17T11:51:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2025-03-17T11:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:51:36","slug":"week-8-lectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/2025\/03\/17\/week-8-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8 &#8211; Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Testing in Games Development<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Guest speaker &#8211; Georgia Mae Ayling &#8211; QA analyst @Rocksteady studies, Previously worked in EA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Table of contents : introduction, what is QA, design changes vs bugs, testing your bugs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is QA?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Quality Assurance :Quality assurance is\u00a0a broad process for preventing quality failures. The QA team is involved in all stages of a product&#8217;s development: production, testing, packaging, and delivery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is QA in the context of making games &gt;?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Functional testing: General QA testing, finding bugs, smoke testing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dev QA: Developer Qa role : supporting QA teams, sorts out trouble shooting issues,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Localisation testing: Fluent in multiple language, can check legal compliance for certain regions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Specialist Field Testing : audio, performance ,design systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compliance Testing: Checks the game meets standards set by first party platformers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SDET : Software development engineer in Test : write and manage automated testing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Design Changes and Bugs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>What is the difference between design issues and bugs<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Design Issues (Useability Issues):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is the game playable o someone who has never played the game before? (Examples of issues include: Unclear objectives, Narrative Issues, Confusing Visuals, Inconsistencies)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bugs:<\/strong> a defect in the software. Code doesn\u2019t function as it should (Example of issues include: Crashes, Performance issues, Cosmetic issues, Functional game flower issues, Certification \/ compliance\/ legal issues)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What does testing for User Feedback look like?:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Testing for design changes : Watch someone play the game, Give as a little pre-amble information as possible, take detailed notes and ask questions ( WHY?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What does testing for bugs look like?:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t play the game&nbsp; normally, Try to account for every scenario the game will be played in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What are the limitations of testing your own work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You know what you\u2019ve made<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Giving yourself honest feedback is hard<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scale of resources<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Training yourself to think differently (Example: designer, player and player who has never played games)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Advice for testing your own work :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Set your quality gate and stick to it (what is the standard you want to achieve &#8211; for example the art to reach a certain quality)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Break it down into sections<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Get Feedback on your product!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Advice for working with a QA team :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Document your work clearly &#8211; the more information the better<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Test your work before submitting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing in Games Development What is QA? What is QA in the context of making games &gt;? Design Changes and Bugs Design Issues (Useability Issues): What does testing for User Feedback look like?: Testing for design changes : Watch someone play the game, Give as a little pre-amble information as possible, take detailed notes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}