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An Overview of Game Testing Techniques

@inproceedings{Farid2011AnOO,
  title={An Overview of Game Testing Techniques},
  author={Adil Farid},
  year={2011}
}
The purpose of this paper is to analyze in general the process of testing, developing video games, and describe in more detail all the aspects of the test phases in a game development process. The game industry has grown significantly in the last decade and many companies have started to use software engineering techniques in the game development process. In game development process the development team is divided into small teams that manage separate aspects of a game. All developing processes… 
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