Modern Game Testing - A Pragmatic Guide to Test Planning and Strategy

Focusing exclusively on the unique challenges of video game testing, you'll discover how modern game companies create test plans and strategies for large and complex games, and learn the foolproof techniques and processes created for and used by real-world game teams.

Packed with expert advice and real-life examples, you'll find this book invaluable if you want to improve your own or your team's feature test plans and catch more bugs. It's also a great guide for testers looking to move into a test writing role.

Inside you'll find all the know-how you'll need to own the end-to-end test strategy for game features, including:

- identifying what should be tested for each game feature
- designing tests with clear instructions for effective test execution
- how to approach testing for a range of common game features
- a toolbox of test planning techniques to guide the test planning process

All equipping you to organise and communicate your plans within any project team. Complete with practical examples, working templates and industry tales from real projects, Modern Game Testing assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, tackling each area with logical, easy-to-follow steps.

By the end of the book, you'll have a sufficiently broad and deep knowledge to be able to write test plans for all the most common game features