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

WebCamp Zagreb1 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
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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.

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

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@senko2020 · in “Raytracing won't simplify AAA real-time rendering”

> From what I've seen game industry has terrible software engineering practices. You'd be surprised. Here's a talk from Croteam on how they test their games and engine: [VIDEO] I'd wager all major engines are exhaustively tested. Trouble is, there's combinatorial explosion of game state, user input, assets, scripted behaviour and engine, so there's a huge area to cover.

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@dsego2021 · in “TDD from the Factorio Team”

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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@senko2022 · in “I learned to love testing game code”

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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@cpeterso2022 · in “Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?”

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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