The article systematically explores core game‑testing techniques—including functional, performance, compatibility, automation, and emerging AI‑driven methods—illustrated with real‑world cases, to provide practitioners with a practical framework for ensuring both technical quality and player immersion.
This article shares the author’s real‑world experience with equivalence class partitioning, explaining the concept, illustrating how to apply it to both numeric and non‑numeric game scenarios, and offering practical tips for writing robust test cases and avoiding common pitfalls in QA work.
The article explores how game testers can effectively test classic titles like Super Mario Bros by studying similar games, defining clear test scopes, designing practical test cases, handling bugs, and continuously improving test processes while considering player experience and non‑functional issues.
This article explores comprehensive requirement analysis techniques for game testing, covering document analysis, mind‑mapping, 5W1H expansion, equivalence class handling, risk mitigation, and implementation details, aiming to improve test case creation, reduce ambiguities, and ensure smoother cross‑functional reviews and overseas releases.
This article outlines the hard and soft competencies required for game functional testing, including test case creation, bug tracking, risk awareness, communication, proactive work habits, learning ability, and innovation, while offering practical strategies to improve testing efficiency and product quality.
This article provides a detailed testing guide for short‑term game events, covering their unique challenges, requirement analysis, risk mitigation, test case preparation, execution strategies, communication practices, player experience considerations, log verification, post‑mortem analysis, and activity reuse recommendations.
This article outlines a comprehensive methodology for creating game experience reports, covering the purpose, various writing scenarios, key questions, audience considerations, core gameplay loops, development processes, competitive analysis, QA sensitivity, and practical tips to produce clear, persuasive, and professional documentation.
This article outlines the various types of game storylines and provides a comprehensive checklist of testing points—including text, dialogue, subtitles, tasks, voice‑over, music, character actions, special effects, animation, camera work, map resources, NPC placement, items, mini‑games, and sharing features—to help QA teams ensure a smooth and immersive player experience.
This article explains how QA engineers can identify inefficiencies in their daily workflows, turn those observations into concrete tool requirements, and apply visualisation, automation, and process‑optimisation techniques—illustrated with game‑testing examples—to dramatically improve efficiency and reduce errors.
This article presents a comprehensive methodology for creating high‑coverage test cases for UI‑driven games, covering evaluation criteria, user‑centric design steps, entry‑point analysis, UI element partitioning, static and dynamic checks, business‑flow testing, data‑storage validation, and additional considerations such as network conditions, compatibility, performance, and UX.
This article presents a game‑testing automation framework that records manual gameplay actions, captures client state, generates reproducible scripts, handles input events and GM commands, and discusses its architecture, limitations, and future improvements in detail.
This article explains what white‑box analysis is, why it matters for game feature testing, outlines a complete testing workflow from requirement to post‑release, and provides concrete examples and tips for QA engineers to improve test precision and efficiency.
This article shares practical experiences and advice from a newcomer functional tester in game development, covering senior guidance, communication bottlenecks, unclear requirements, the need to question design, avoiding cascading bugs, comprehensive test‑case coverage, effective learning, and common automation pitfalls.
This article explains why weak‑network testing is essential for mobile games, defines the key network parameters such as bandwidth, packet loss, latency and jitter, illustrates typical problems caused by poor connectivity, and introduces practical testing methods and tools like NetFree.
This article presents a detailed case study of using AI speech‑recognition techniques—including acoustic modeling with VGG, pypinyin conversion, feature extraction, and CTC decoding—to automatically verify game dialogue audio against script text, outlining the workflow, challenges, implementation details, and experimental results.
The article shares a QA newcomer’s one‑year reflection on game testing, covering visible vs invisible aspects, the importance of diff analysis, combining black‑box and white‑box testing, systematic test case recording, bug acceptance, and final delivery practices to improve quality in game development.
This article outlines essential considerations such as reward distribution, timing, resource reuse, performance and compatibility, and presents practical testing techniques—including design‑doc review, code review, tool usage, process control, and communication—to ensure robust and stable festival event releases in online games.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to game pressure testing, covering the full workflow from requirement communication and test planning to execution, performance analysis using tools like LuaProfiler, Perf, and VTune, and detailed result interpretation with case studies.
This guide introduces game automation testing, explaining its benefits and limitations, outlining when it is appropriate, and providing a detailed two‑part tutorial on building an automated testing framework—including outer process setup, server and client components, and using third‑party tools like Airtest.
Tencent’s WeTest platform, now rebranded and expanded internationally, offers developers a comprehensive suite of cloud‑based testing, performance monitoring, AI‑driven analysis, and industry‑standard tools that bridge technical and design quality, helping game and app creators deliver higher‑quality products worldwide.
This article describes how the MMGame testing team combined the open‑source Appium automation framework with OpenCV's image‑recognition capabilities to enable coordinate‑based testing of third‑party mobile games that lack accessible UI elements, detailing the workflow, implementation, results, and a comparison with other mobile testing tools.
