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Let's start with a story.

What is the game test? First of all, let's tell a story of personal experience, which I believe will also be encountered by most people who do travel tests. When I first graduated, some of my friends asked me what my job was, and I said game test. Then their reply is basically: how cool, playing games every day? Something like that. I just... At first, I thought it should be very cool, but after I really came into contact with this job, I found that it was not that simple.

Not just playing games.

In the eyes of many laymen and even non-test jobs, game testing is a very unskilled job with a low threshold. But just keep playing games and feedback on problems, which is purely manual work. If this is the case, then we can go to the Internet cafe to pull a few players to do it. Some early game tests did this, but now it is no longer possible to guarantee the quality of the game, because what is needed now is testers with professional knowledge and skills, efficient testing methods and effective management processes. in order to ensure the quality of the game in the development process. There is no denying that game testing does require us to play games, just as you need to know the products like the back of your hand in software testing, but not only to play games, but also to know more about all kinds of games than ordinary gamers. Sometimes you have to play the role of program, planning, customer service and operation, of course, how much you can play depends on your ability.

Game testing > = Software testing

In fact, the game is also software, it has the commonness of traditional software products. Nowadays, there is a fairly complete system for testing methods, quality control and process improvement of software products, but there is still a vacancy in game software. Baidu can find out the keyword "game testing". There are few game testing books published on the market, and most of them use the set of software engineering to manage game testing or talk about a little game testing when talking about software testing. Why do you say "game testing" = software testing? Personally, I think the game is much more complex and huge than a traditional software, so it is necessary to test, analyze and design the characteristics of a single game on the basis of software testing theory, and the aspect of divergent thinking should be relatively wide, because the logic in the game is complex and the degree of coupling is high. And game testing also includes other aspects of testing, such as playability test, balance test.

Ultimate goal

Some people say that the purpose of software testing is to "find defects in software products as soon as possible and fix them". By the same token, the ultimate goal of game testing is to find defects in the game and fix them. "as soon as possible" is required because the cost of fixing a defect becomes higher and higher as the development progresses. Therefore, in the work, you are required to report or submit to the relevant developers as soon as possible when you find BUG. If a major BUG is found and repaired late, it will cause losses to the players that may be lost, as well as to the company, indirectly causing losses to themselves (bonuses).

An outline of small feelings

Personally, I feel that domestic game testing has not been taken seriously, and has no status, but it does not mean that it is not important. There is no "test" category in the categories of articles published by CSDN, let alone game test categories. Take my project, for example, if there is no professional test from the quality department, the game will be dead long ago. Therefore, I very much hope that both inside and outside the industry can attach importance to the game testing and give us applause and encouragement. No matter whether a game is successful or not, there will be their youth and sweat behind it.

The above contents are all personal views, and I hope you will point out and forgive me for what is wrong.

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