@INPROCEEDINGS{Politowski21-AST-SurveyVideoGamesTesting,
   AUTHOR       = {Cristiano Politowski and Fabio 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},
   OPTADDRESS   = {},
   OPTCROSSREF  = {},
   EDITOR       = {Alejandra Garrido and Breno Miranda and Javier Tuya},
   MONTH        = {May},
   NOTE         = {10 pages.},
   OPTNUMBER    = {},
   OPTORGANIZATION = {},
   PAGES        = {90--99},
   PUBLISHER    = {ACM Press},
   OPTSERIES    = {},
   OPTVOLUME    = {},
   KEYWORDS     = {Topic: <b>Video game development</b>, 
      Topic: <b>Test case generation</b>, Venue: <c>AST</c>},
   URL          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/AST21.doc.pdf},
   PDF          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/AST21.ppt.pdf},
   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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