Testing and Games

• Testing does not guarantee that a product will succeed.
• However, no testing pretty much guarantees that it will fail.
• Note that we've talked mostly about functionality today.
• Other issues such as usability, and interestingness are much harder to test.
• Also note that in games development, and much more so than 1990, there is rarely monolithic code.
• That is, code gets reused in multiple products.
• Core code really needs to be tested as, say, a library, but then tested again in the final product.
• Also note that the shareware engines (like Crystal Space) are really weak about testing. Consequently they have a lot of bugs. You could help on this.