Answers to Exercises - Game Testing All in One - page 376

6. Some potential problems are: Male Scoundrel picture or title might not get highlighted
at the appropriate time, wrong picture could be shown for Male Scoundrel, scoundrel
description might be wrong or contain an error, scoundrel description might not get
shown at the right time, X or Y buttons could affect the selection or display of the
scoundrel, right analog stick could affect the selection or display of the scoundrel, X or Y
buttons could affect the subsequent operation of the B (back) button, right analog stick
could affect the subsequent operation of the B button.
7. Outline Test:
Main Menu
New Game
Character Selection
Scoundrel
Scout
Scoundrel
Invalid controls
Main Menu
Advantages:
Shorter
Less chance of making an error when writing the test
Easier to reuse across different game platforms
May get run different ways by different testers
Disadvantages:
Does not specify “Invalid controls�?
Does not draw tester's attention to what item to check at each step
A developer may have trouble reproducing a defect found this way
May not get repeated exactly the same way by another tester
Note that the 4 th advantage and disadvantage are the same. By running it differently,
someone else could find a defect that didn't show up the first time. But running it
differently each time, a tester could miss a defect that was the target of the original
test.
Chapter 3
1. Yes.
2. The answer is specific to the reader.
3. Correct answers to this question should be along the lines of: when you are placed in a
particular location in the game world, when you type in a name for something in the game
(a player, town, pet, etc.), when you change a game option (language, difficulty, etc.), when
you gain a new ability (skill, level, job, unlocked item, etc.), when you set the selling price
of an item.