#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! Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/house-of-games/message 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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/house-of-games/message