A Survey of Video Game Testing

A Survey of Video Game Testing. Politowski, C., Petrillo, F., & Gu�h�neuc, Y. In Garrido, A., Miranda, B., & Tuya, J., editors, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Automation of Software (AST), pages 90–99, May, 2021. ACM Press. 10 pages.

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Video-game projects are notorious for having day-one bugs, no matter how big their budget or team size. The quality of a game is essential for its success. This quality could be assessed and ensured through testing. However, to the best of our knowledge, little is known about video-game testing. In this paper, we want to understand how game developers perform game testing. We investigate, through a survey, the academic and gray literature to identify and report on existing testing processes and how they could automate them. We found that game developers rely, almost exclusively, upon manual play-testing and the testers' intrinsic knowledge. We conclude that current testing processes fall short because of their lack of automation, which seems to be the natural next step to improve the quality of games while maintaining costs. However, the current game-testing techniques may not generalize to different types of games.

@INPROCEEDINGS{Politowski21-AST-SurveyVideoGamesTesting,
   AUTHOR       = {Cristiano Politowski and F�bio Petrillo and 
      Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc},
   BOOKTITLE    = {Proceedings of the 2<sup>nd</sup> International Conference on Automation of Software (AST)},
   TITLE        = {A Survey of Video Game Testing},
   YEAR         = {2021},
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   EDITOR       = {Alejandra Garrido and Breno Miranda and Javier Tuya},
   MONTH        = {May},
   NOTE         = {10 pages.},
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   KEYWORDS     = {Topic: <b>Video game development</b>, 
      Rubrique : <b>d�veloppement des jeux vid�o</b>, 
      Topic: <b>Test case generation</b>, 
      Rubrique : <b>g�n�ration de cas de test</b>, Conference: AST},
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   ABSTRACT     = {Video-game projects are notorious for having day-one 
      bugs, no matter how big their budget or team size. The quality of a 
      game is essential for its success. This quality could be assessed and 
      ensured through testing. However, to the best of our knowledge, 
      little is known about video-game testing. In this paper, we want to 
      understand how game developers perform game testing. We investigate, 
      through a survey, the academic and gray literature to identify and 
      report on existing testing processes and how they could automate 
      them. We found that game developers rely, almost exclusively, upon 
      manual play-testing and the testers' intrinsic knowledge. We conclude 
      that current testing processes fall short because of their lack of 
      automation, which seems to be the natural next step to improve the 
      quality of games while maintaining costs. However, the current 
      game-testing techniques may not generalize to different types of 
      games.}
}

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