Starting agile game testing

1. War against Bugs
”agile way”
By oakstick
15-02-2011

2. ”Bug hunting is like fishing, just wait
there it will come to you ”
Maybe not
QA is not about finding bugs, it is about fixing them.
Finding the bugs on the right time is as important as
finding them at the first place.

3. TEST
Classical Game development

4. Game development nowadays

8. v
s

9. Cost of change is expensive !

10. •Dev Team
•Achitecture
•Requirements
•Design
•Coding
•Build
•Test
•Content Creation
•In house
•Outsource
•QA Team
•Smoke test
•Game play
testing
•TCR-CTR
Two headed monster

12. “Done” is clearly defined
 The definition of done includes testing
 The PO and team knows this definition by
heart.

Clinton Keith
”Agile game development”
Definition of Done

13. 
Testers
◦ Game QA
◦ Tech QA

Autobuild
◦ Nighlty builds
◦ Continues builds

Support
◦ Help desk
What do we have ?
Bugzilla
Build robots
Hansoft
Outlook

14. 
Do we have what we need to solve our
problem ?

Do we know the problem ?

15. Agile Development Challenge
Test automation Management
Process tool centralization and control
Visibility And Traceability for compaliance efforts
Tool software build management
What are the problems
(challenges)

16. Quality (legacy)

Game is seen to exhibit undesirable
behavior
What is desirable behavior ?
Do you know all desirable behavior ?
Do you need a design document ?
Don’t we change that thing all the time ?

17. Quality (agile)
Completeness
 Correctness


18. 
Completeness
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
Draw a Picture
Look for a Pattern
Guess and Check
Make a Systematic List
Logical Reasoning
Work Backwards

19. 
Correctness
Black-box testing
White-box testing

20. Functionality
(exterior
quality)
Engineering
(interior
quality)
Adaptability
(future
quality)
Correctness
Efficiency
Flexibility
Reliability
Testability
Reusability
Usability
Documentation
Maintainability
Integrity
Structure

21. Producer to QA Manager.

Tell us what is working

We will assume the rest is not.

If you tell me what is not working.

We will assume the rest is.