The challenges of test automation in video games I had the great opportunity to speak at AutomationStar 2024. If you don't know AutomationStar, this is one of Europe's biggest test automation conferences. Most of the AutomationStar crowd is focused ... alttester gamedriver unity unity test framework unreal Dec 3, 2024
How to tackle randomness in automated game testing Randomness has a special place in game development. Its usage can span from small visual effects (particles), to entire gameplay mechanics (dice rolls), or even business models (loot boxes). Since ran... unity Sep 22, 2024
Roadmap to become a QA automation engineer in games I've been asked a few times how to get started in test automation for video games. Initially I thought "well you need programming skills, QA knowledge, game engine knowledge, ..." and then I realized ... tip unity unreal May 16, 2024
A comparison of Unity test frameworks Test Automation is slowly getting adopted by the video game industry. The Game Quality Forum 2023 clearly indicates this shift. However there is a lack of comprehensible answers to this question. If y... alttester gamedriver unity unity test framework Sep 22, 2023
Game Quality Forum 2023, a review As an QA automation engineer in video games, it is hard to find conferences that fit the intersections of my skills and professional interest. QA automation engineers are not only interested in QA, bu... Jul 16, 2023
5 good reasons to invest in automated game testing It's no secret the majority of testing in the game industry is done manually. Games can be very complex and since they put the user at the center of the experience, manual testing is key to deliver a ... Jul 9, 2021
Unity UI test automation: how to write tests for your game interface The Unity Test Framework provides a basic way to write automated tests for your game. While it's fairly easy to test simple game objects with Unity, making sure the user interface works as expected is... May 14, 2021
Can AI revolutionize automated game testing? Artificial Intelligence has progressed tremendously to the point we can automate entire categories of tasks. The idea of AI playing a game and automatically finding defects is not new. But is it possi... AI Apr 9, 2021
Unity Test Framework: waiting the right way In the previous post, we went through an introduction to the Unity Test Framework . In this tutorial, we will see the different ways to wait for something to happen during a Unity test. Understanding ... unity unity test framework Mar 23, 2021
Unity Test Framework Tutorial (Unity 2022.3) 💡 This tutorial has been updated in September 2024 for Unity 2022.3. Testing is an important part of game development. Manual testing is often the obvious way. But manual testing can be very repetitiv... unity unity test framework Mar 5, 2021
Unity Test Tip: speedup your automated tests with one simple trick Game developers need to rely on a fairly large battery of tests to ensure recent changes didn’t break anything. The drawback of such a large number of tests is the time it takes to complete. But what ... tip unity Feb 15, 2021
Automated game testing is still in its infancy Writing software is highly abstract and it’s difficult to keep the whole picture in one’s head, especially when the parts of said software change continuously. Writing tests is, for some, an obvious s... Feb 12, 2021