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title: Game Testing
description: Game testing is the quality assurance process of identifying bugs, glitches, and design flaws in video games. You will understand test plan creation, bug tracking methodologies, compatibility testing, and how to gather actionable feedback from playtesters.
category: arts-design
subcategory: game-development
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/game-testing
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# Game Testing

Game testing is the quality assurance process of identifying bugs, glitches, and design flaws in video games. You will understand test plan creation, bug tracking methodologies, compatibility testing, and how to gather actionable feedback from playtesters.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 1 Websites

## Books

### 1. Game Testing: All in One

**Author:** Charles P. Schultz, Robert Denton Bryant

A textbook on professional game quality assurance covering the tester's role, bug writing, test planning, combinatorial and test-flow techniques, cleanroom testing, and test automation. It prepares readers to design test cases and report defects the way studio QA teams do.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1936420163?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, game-development

### 2. Game Development Essentials: Game QA & Testing

**Author:** Luis Levy, Jeannie Novak

An introductory textbook on the game QA process, from the tester's role in the development cycle to test plans, bug reporting and databases, compliance and usability testing. It also explains QA career paths and how testing teams work with developers.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1435439473?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, game-development

## Websites

### 1. ministryoftesting.com

Ministry of Testing is a community hub for software testers, offering articles, courses, events (such as TestBash), podcasts, and an active forum with practical resources to learn and improve testing skills, including game testing.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://ministryoftesting.com

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, game-development

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