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Andrew Fray (Engineer, Spry Fox)
Location: Room 214, South Hall
Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Pass Type: All Access, GDC Conference + Summits, GDC Conference - Get your pass now!
Topic: Programming, Production & Team Management
Format: Roundtable
Vault Recording: Not Recorded
Audience Level: All
Automated testing provides a team with more stable software at an earlier point in development, allowing easier scheduling and fast iteration. Yet investing in automated testing has a bad reputation in the industry, where "just-ship-it" is the mantra. Maybe, as increased budgets and team sizes make stability even harder, its time has finally come.
Day one's discussion focuses on the people who write the tests and workflows used to reinforce them. How does the process work in your studio? Are the engineers responsible for automated tests, or QA? Are QA silo'd or integrated? What could be better? What doesn't work?
These roundtables bring together people of all experience levels and budgets to discuss how they currently, or would like to, use automated testing of any form. See http://autotestingroundtable.com/ for more details and to join the discord!
Attendees will discover common definitions around automated testing, how other studios are currently using it, what works well, and what doesn't. They will return to their studios and extol the benefits of automated testing, and that it doesn't have to be hard or time consuming to see returns on investment.
Programmers and technical QA with experience or interest in automated testing. It's ok to not be an expert, all ability levels encouraged.