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Alen Ladavac - Taking CI and automated testing seriously - WebCamp Zagreb 2018

WebCamp Zagreb · 941 views · 2018-11-06 · 44:25

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Alen Ladavac of Croteam talks about continuous integration and automated testing pipelines in games, with case studies from The Talos Principle and Serious Sam.

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HN points to it as a rare, practical look at how a game studio tests its games and engine.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2020–2022

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senko · 2022-09 · Recommendation

Here's also a good overview how Croteam (creators of Serious Sam and The Talos Principle) approach automated testing: [VIDEO] The talk is from 2018 and references some of the trends in the industry towards more automated testing.

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cpeterso · 2022-09 · Reference

I worked at an MMO game company and the only testing we had was manual QA for functional testing and bot clients for server stress testing. Not a great environment for building quality software. (Our max server uptime was about 24 hours.) The client had a secret level with all game objects for testing and debugging. But reading your post makes me see that we didn’t think ahead far enough: the secret level could have been the foundation for automated unit testing game objects and battling characters. I haven’t watched them yet, but I added these relevant videos to my YouTube backlog just this week: * Automated Testing of Gameplay Features in 'Sea of Thieves' (GDC 2019): [LINK] * Taking CI and automated testing seriously (2018): [VIDEO]

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dsego · 2021-06 · Reference

Not TDD but here is a talk about automated testing at Croteam Continuous integration and testing pipelines in games - case studies of The Talos Principle and Serious Sam [VIDEO]

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