House of Games #64 - Testing, Testing

This week on House of Games we talk about testing, types of tests, and what (not) to do to find bugs, tune in!

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Chapters
00:00 Episode Intro
01:01 How Rune Tests His Games
07:49 Otto's Experience as a Tester
17:59 Unit Test
26:48 Smoke Test
33:22 Regression Test
37:49 Why Don't Programmers Find All the Bugs Themselves?
42:59 Stress Test
45:47 Structured Testing vs. Unstructured Testing
52:36 Real-World Applications of Testing Skills
56:34 Reading Comments
58:58 Episode Outro

Your Hosts and Their Games
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2436180/Sunset_Moon/ - Wishlist Sunset Moon on Steam!
https://www.play-asia.com/red-colony-trilogy/13/70fmjh - Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Switch!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24596/Red_Colony_Uncensored_Threesome_Bundle/ - Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Steam!
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/knifeboy-rebooted-switch/ - Buy KnifeBoy on Switch!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/889130/KnifeBoy_Rebooted/ - Buy KnifeBoy on Steam!
https://ottowretling.medium.com/list/game-development-427e99aefd01 - Read Otto's blog about game development!
https://discord.gg/mYM72SQ9CP - The discord server for Game Hub Umeå.

Other Links
https://doom.com/ - The homepage for the Doom franchise.
https://rome.ro/ - The homepage for John Romero.
https://youtu.be/ILkT_HV9DVU?si=G5OGB4MRb1LFwzfM - Lecture on Software Testing by James Bach.
https://unity.com/ - The homepage for Unity.

Get all the links and the transcript for this episode right here: https://medium.com/@ottowretling/house-of-games-64-testing-testing-92928a472492