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As the video game market grows larger, it becomes harder to stand out from the crowd. Launching a successful game involves different aspects. But what are they? In this paper, we investigate some aspects of the high-rated games from a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Gabriel Ullmann , Cristiano Politowski , Yann-Gäel Guéhéneuc , Fabio Petrillo

Bugs that persist into releases of video games can have negative impacts on both developers and users, but particular aspects of testing in game development can lead to difficulties in effectively catching these missed bugs. It has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Andrew Truelove , Eduardo Santana de Almeida , Iftekhar Ahmed

The growth of the software game development industry is enormous and is gaining importance day by day. This growth imposes severe pressure and a number of issues and challenges on the game development community. Game development is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Saiqa Aleem , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed

Detecting and fixing compatibility issues is critical for mobile game development. The rapid evolution of mobile operating systems and device fragmentation make it challenging for developers to timely address these issues across diverse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zihe Song , Yingfeng Chen , Lei Ma , Shangjie Lu , Honglei Lin , Changjie Fan , Wei Yang

In this paper, we propose a method and workflow for automating regression testing of certain video game aspects using automated planning and incremental action model learning techniques. The basic idea is to use detailed game logs and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Tomáš Balyo , G. Michael Youngblood , Filip Dvořák , Lukáš Chrpa , Roman Barták

Game development is an interdisciplinary concept that embraces artistic, software engineering, management, and business disciplines. This research facilitates a better understanding of important dimensions of digital game development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Saiqa Aleem , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed

Context. The game industry is increasingly growing in recent years. Every day, millions of people play video games, not only as a hobby, but also for professional competitions (e.g., e-sports or speed-running) or for making business by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Emanuela Guglielmi , Simone Scalabrino , Gabriele Bavota , Rocco Oliveto

Software testing is a mandatory activity in any serious software development process, as bugs are a reality in software development. This raises the question of quality: good tests are effective in finding bugs, but until a test case…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Daniel Lucrédio , Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi , Eduardo Santana de Almeida , Iftekhar Ahmed

Enabling fully automated testing of mobile applications has recently become an important topic of study for both researchers and practitioners. A plethora of tools and approaches have been proposed to aid mobile developers both by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Mario Linares Vasquez , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk

[Background] The game industry faces fierce competition and games are developed on short deadlines and tight budgets. Continuously testing and experimenting with new ideas and features is essential in validating and guiding development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Johan Linåker , Elizabeth Bjarnason , Fabian Fagerholm

The goal of this exploratory research is to investigate how glitches and bugs within video games affect a players overall experience. The severity or frequency of bugs, as well as the nature of the bugs present, could influence how the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Jessica Backus

The presence of bugs in video games can bring significant consequences for developers. To avoid these consequences, developers can leverage gameplay videos to identify and fix these bugs. Video hosting websites such as YouTube provide…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andrew Truelove , Shiyue Rong , Eduardo Santana de Almeida , Iftekhar Ahmed

IT security issues are an important aspect for each and every organization within the video game industry. Within the video game industry alone, you might not normally think of security risks being an issue. But as we can and have seen in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Stephen Mohr , Syed Shawon Rahman

The requirements in automation, digitalization, and fast computations have loaded the IT sector with expectations of highly reliable, efficient, and cost-effective software. Given that the process of testing, verification, and validation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Durga Shree N , Sree Dharinya S , Dasari Vijayasree , Nadendla Sai Roopa , Anugu Arun

The process of playtesting a game is subjective, expensive and incomplete. In this paper, we present a playtesting approach that explores the game space with automated agents and collects data to answer questions posed by the designers.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Fernando de Mesentier Silva , Igor Borovikov , John Kolen , Navid Aghdaie , Kazi Zaman

Playing video games requires perception, memory, and planning, exactly the faculties modern large language model (LLM) agents are expected to master. We study the major challenges in using popular video games to evaluate modern LLMs and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Lanxiang Hu , Mingjia Huo , Yuxuan Zhang , Haoyang Yu , Eric P. Xing , Ion Stoica , Tajana Rosing , Haojian Jin , Hao Zhang

Testing is an essential quality activity in the software development process. Usually, a software system is tested on several levels, starting with unit testing that checks the smallest parts of the code until acceptance testing, which is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Lucas Neves , Oscar Campos , Robson Santos , Italo Santos , Cleyton Magalhaes , Ronnie de Souza Santos

The software development lifecycle depends heavily on the testing process, which is an essential part of finding issues and reviewing the quality of software. Software testing can be done in two ways: manually and automatically. With an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Hussein Mohammed Ali , Mahmood Yashar Hamza , Tarik Ahmed Rashid

In the past 10 years, several researches studied video game development process who proposed approaches to improve the way how games are developed. These approaches usually adopt agile methodologies because of claims that traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Cristiano Politowski , Lisandra Fontoura , Fabio Petrillo , Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

Software testing is an important phase in the software development life-cycle because it helps in identifying bugs in a software system before it is shipped into the hand of its end users. There are numerous studies on how developers test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Luis Cruz , Rui Abreu , David Lo