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AST 2021
Fri 28 - Sat 29 May 2021
co-located with ICSE 2021
Fri 21 May 2021 15:15 - 15:45 at AST Room - Testing for Specific Domains - 2 Chair(s): Alejandra Garrido

Video-game projects are notorious for having day-one bugs, no matter how big their budget or team size. The quality of a game is essential for its success. This quality could be assessed and ensured through testing. However, to the best of our knowledge, little is known about video-game testing. In this paper, we want to understand how game developers perform game testing. We investigate, through a survey, the academic and gray literature to identify and report on existing testing processes and how they could automate them. We found that game developers rely, almost exclusively, upon manual play-testing and the testers’ intrinsic knowledge. We conclude that current testing processes fall short because of their lack of automation, which seems to be the natural next step to improve the quality of games while maintaining costs. However, the current game-testing techniques may not generalize to different types of games.

Fri 21 May

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15:00 - 16:15
Testing for Specific Domains - 2AST 2021 at AST Room
Chair(s): Alejandra Garrido LIFIA, University of La Plata & CONICET, Argentina
15:00
15m
Short-paper
Automated User Experience Testing through Multi-Dimensional Performance Impact Analysis
AST 2021
Chidera Biringa University of Massachusetts, Gokhan Kul University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Pre-print Media Attached
15:15
30m
Long-paper
A Survey of Video Game Testing
AST 2021
Cristiano Politowski Concordia University, Fabio Petrillo Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Concordia University and Polytechnique Montréal
Pre-print Media Attached
15:45
30m
Long-paper
Test suites as a source of training data for static analysis alert classifiers
AST 2021
Pre-print Media Attached

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