Responsibilities and Tasks of Game Testing Companies

Responsibilities and Tasks of Game Testing Companies

Testing plays a very important role in video game development process, therefore it requires special consideration.  Game testing companies have a lot of work to do because they manage to address specific challenges faced by video-game industry.  

Depending on company / project specifics, the development process can proceed in quite different directions. But, in most cases, the process of developing and testing a computer game consists of the following steps:

The pre-production stage (pre-production)

During the first stage, as a rule, the process of idea generation precedes creation of each video game. And it is the developer who decides on commencement of game development work.

Production

The second stage involves doing a huge amount of work. Developers create the source code for a video game, the artists draw graphics for it. Games audio engineers create sound effects, and musicians compose music for a video game. Designers configure a game’s levels, and the writers invent dialogues for scene scripts and for characters that are missing. Then it is time for testers to set to work when there is already something playable to get your hands on.  

Beta testing companies hire people to try video games out before they are made available to their customers. Moreover, beta testers get paid for their work and they are the first to get familiar with a prerelease version of a video game.

Maintenance

In the final stage of game creation, some patches are connected or reported defects are fixed.

All games, as a rule, go through the same tests because such an elaborate verification helps to identify more defects in them. Let us examine online game testing. It involves making the several steps:

On initial stage, a one tester does not need much time to examine new games. Getting closer to the final stage, already several testers even combining their efforts spend too much time to verify even a one game, because they have to run regression tests that are required to check the new features. Today we can safely say a game testing is an obligatory process that should not be ignored, taking into account complexity and diversity in video games. For example, one insignificant change made to the software can lead to serious yet expensive consequences. By this is meant that the first stage includes mandatory testing of gaming software within the company developing it, by its testers.
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