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[Game QA] 5 Different Types of Game Testing Techniques

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Many video game developers take account of QA before they launch their games. Today, let’s talk about effective game testing to create quality games.

It is common for developers to miss bugs or errors when they develop a game and run game testing by themselves. With a specialized game QA outsourcing team, you can effectively reduce time and cost on the game releases and updates as well.

Latis Global has professional game QA team members with more than 10 years of experience. And our dedicated team provides outstanding QA services to ensure our client’s games perform as planned. There are many kinds of QA for each phase such as alpha, pre-beta, beta, open-beta, and live. Here are 5 different types of game testing that you need to consider before the release.

Functionality QA

Functionality QA is the most basic QA in-game testing.
This test involves reviewing inaccessibility, inconsistencies, glitches, or bugs in the game experience. Developers believe they can find these errors by running game testing on their own. However, outsourced QA services help you document, reproduce, and review these inconsistencies that developers can skip without deliberation. Developers can also focus on game development much more rather than considering other sides.

Network QA

Network QA is one of the tests that is performed generally like functionality QA. Under a simulated network environment, a dedicated network QA team verifies the running effects of games according to each of your target markets and checks whether there is a network slowdown or disconnection. It is necessary to assess network performance before the global game launch.

Performance QA

There are more and more different kinds of devices used around the world. You need to consider performance testing depending upon system requirements in your target markets. It can serve to measure attributes of preferred devices such as heat generation or battery usage. We, Latis Global, have more than 150 testing devices by OS, manufacturer, and other specifications.

Compatibility QA

Each video game platform has different system requirements. In this regard, every compatibility QA result differs according to testing device. Because of this reason, compatibility QA needs to be run by a dedicated team that is experienced for your several target countries.
Especially when it comes to PC, there are various combinations of performance by manufacturer, CPU, RAM, and other system requirements. However, it causes high labor and time costs. Therefore, we recommend that you select a range of new and popular devices for your target markets so that you can expand the variation in your target platforms.

Market Review QA

Your game should be compliant with stores’ policies. It is important to determine whether your game is reliable, performs as expected, respects user privacy and is free of objectionable content. Every store has its own criteria and guidelines but if your game is not approved, you cannot even release your game. Further, as this review process reflects targeting the market’s cultural factors, you need to take the cultural context into account.

So far, we have looked over five recommendable QA services before the game is released. If you go with these five QAs before launching the game, you will be able to fix critical errors beforehand and gain a foothold for your successful global launch.