Why you should find an external Game QA team.
Why you should find an external Game QA team. Today, we are going to talk about crucial factors that you should take into account when selecting an external game QA team. 1. In-house QA testing For video game developers, QA testing has become a must-do process to ensure that a quality of the game at launch will meet the players’ high expectations. However, many small-to-medium-sized developers focus more on game development and spend less time on testing their finished product. On several occasions, they are even under pressure to meet a deadline, resulting in poor QA quality. There is also a chance that the companies do not employ permanent QA team, and this might cause delay on your project’s QA process as the QA team is being recruited. It could also result in a lower quality of QA testing, if those delays cause a rush on the QA testing process. 2. 4 Essential Factors to Consider When Selecting Your QA team 1) Sufficient QA period When you select an external QA team for the first time, you need at least a month before the launch to communicate your needs with the team. During the initial team meeting, you will have to discuss about several processes of your QA testing, including analyzing the game build, designing the test case, planning the test, and more. There are many factors that could affect a time schedule, such as game developments, maintenance & release schedule as well as a genre of the game. In this regard, it is recommended to have a pre-meeting with a QA service provider to inquire and set an appropriate schedule for your QA testing. 2) Efficient QA schedule You might think your QA testing could be completed faster if you hire more testers. However, this is not the case. To reach the peak/climax of a particular game, you will need enough time for the test. The amount of time invested in QA testing will proportionately result in the quality of the game. With sufficient time, QA team can carefully run through your entire game to find any issues and bug; whereas insufficient QA period will force the team to mainly focus only on the main parts of your game. 3) QA team’s expertise How many projects have they tested? How deep is their knowledge in the gaming industry? Which game genres and platforms have they tested recently? These are some of the many important questions you need to consider before selecting your QA testers. In the past, QA testers might not have had much experience with a specific type of video games. However, nowadays it is essential that those working on video game QA have a deep understanding of each game and its mechanics, as it has a huge positive impact on the outcome of the QA testing. 4) Additional recommendation according to circumstances Finding a QA team that not only can provide QA testing service but also suggest additional QA testing necessary for each project will definitely show a better result than hiring a QA team that only performs general testing without giving you additional QA advices. A reliable business partner should give you a proposal with thorough business strategy beyond merely game understanding. “After a sample test of the game build you sent us, we can verify that there is 60% of compatibility test fails. As there is a high possibility that your game might not run properly, we would like to recommend you to do additional Performance QA and Compatibility QA testing.” Summary: Sufficient QA period Efficient QA schedule QA team’s expertise Additional recommendation according to circumstance. If you want to inquire about global expansion now, click here to go to the contact form. Our extensive knowledge of video games helps us to deliver superior gaming services. We are a team made up of game specialists who fully understand and love video games. We provide our clients with the highest quality gaming services for all types, platforms, and genres of video games. With considerable knowledge and experience, we support global video game developers and publishers for their successful launch.
[Game QA] 5 Different Types of Game Testing Techniques
[Game QA] 5 Different Types of Game Testing Techniques 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. If you want to inquire about global expansion now, click here to go to the contact form. Our extensive knowledge of video games helps us to deliver superior gaming services. We are a team made up of game specialists who fully understand and love video games. We provide our clients with the highest quality gaming services for all types, platforms, and genres of video games. With considerable knowledge and experience, we support global video game developers and publishers for their successful launch.
