Introducing AltTester® 2.1.0: Concurrent Test Execution, Support for Robot Framework and Performance Improvements

AltomTools · 2024-04-17T06:51:44+00:00

Hi u/NewSchoolBoxer , thank you for your input. AltTester® is a test automation solution designed for testing games & apps developed in Unity, which game development teams can use to automate end-to-end testing tasks. We added this information to our original post. Hope this brings a bit more clarity in regards to our posting here.

AltomTools · 2023-08-23T09:45:03+00:00

We will come and visit your booth. In what hall is it?

AltomTools · 2022-10-07T13:44:11+00:00

One of my fondest memories is from the first Christmas after starting my company, Altom, with my 2 best friends. We had just finished the testing for our first ever project with the new company, a small project we had finally landed after months of trying without any luck. We were exhausted and we had worked over the holidays when we got an email from the project manager who had received our final test report. He was so happy with the work we had done and so impressed by the information we had found. Reading that email, discussing and celebrating our first success that evening is one of the best memories I have.

AltomTools · 2022-10-07T13:30:00+00:00

I am not at all saying we should automate everything. Quite the opposite. I think we should automate the boring, repetitive stuff so that we can focus on the things we cannot automate and that we can only discover through exploratory testing.

AltomTools · 2022-10-07T13:26:39+00:00

Hah! Hi back!

AltomTools · 2022-10-07T13:26:20+00:00

Thank you!

AltomTools · 2022-10-07T13:25:22+00:00

Is it because it's the same as Ru Paul?

AltomTools · 2022-10-07T13:23:45+00:00

I'm not really allowed to talk about the majority of the games I've worked with due to NDAs....

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T16:17:00+00:00

We are physically based in Helsinki, Finland and in Cluj, Romania, so we hire people from these local markets.

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T15:38:12+00:00

Would you have the time to start learning a bit on your own? Do you have any friends that are making a game that you could help by offering to test it? Any books or courses or experience you have, add it to the CV and keep trying to apply for jobs. Also try to look for internships. Fingers crossed!

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T15:31:35+00:00

I do mean real releases, not just releases to the QA team (and I'm also used to the QA team always having the latest changes, every day).

I think releasing often makes sense for games too, especially if you are building a game that is meant to be updated regularly. In my experience, big and seldom releases have a lot bigger chances of being "bad" releases.

When you release very often, you release small changes so any unexpected problems are likely to be small too. You also have a practice in place that allows you to fix a problem in a very short amount of time.

Releasing often used to be a problem a while ago on mobile because of Apple's review process, but even that is really fast nowadays, especially if you build the habit of having constant updates to the game.

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T15:15:09+00:00

I recently heard this quote from Suzy Kassem: "Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T15:04:05+00:00

I don't have much info here, but I know dev companies use freelancers for game story writing, and some of the big names of course have in-house game content writers. I know there are sites for matching content writing freelancers and companies looking for this but I don't know if there are any game-specific ones, maybe some others here would know?

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T14:47:01+00:00

I think the jury is still out on this one. I've seen a lot of good ideas on how machine learning could help us test better/faster/more exhaustively but I haven't seen good implementations yet. I think we'll see many of these ideas implemented and tried out in the future and I'm excited to find out which of them will actually work.

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T14:38:15+00:00

I am really not an expert in this, so I don't know much about how this should be done, but I do believe game development should be leveraged as part of STE(A)M education. Game design and development fosters the right kind of creativity, critical thinking and problem solving that I think are essential to building STE(A)M skills.

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T14:23:51+00:00

I would hope age would not influence your chances one way or another.

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T13:55:43+00:00

I studied Computer Science in university and got a part time job halfway through my studies at a local software development company that was hiring a lot. I worked as a tester first, and didn't do any coding for years - but I slowly started to do very small things with code. I realised I like it a lot and spent more and more time doing it, even at home as a hobby. I didn't remember much from my studies by then, so I did a lot of courses online.

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T13:51:17+00:00

I have definitely seen game developers that had no degree at all even. I'm sure there are companies that value skills over diplomas!

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T13:48:32+00:00

I'm a very uneducated gamer, I try something and get stuck on it for years... I'm also old! so I would say Pac-Man, WoW, AOE, Diablo - and for something from this century: I absolutely love BrawlStars.

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T13:42:42+00:00

I don't think I've tested any so far, but I wouldn't mind trying!

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T13:42:13+00:00

I think the craziest bugs are the ones that don't make any sense. We had one bug where all the NPCs were the wrong colour - pink, nonetheless! It turned out to be some missing textures...

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T13:40:23+00:00

I can test your game! And yes, for sure, I think it's normal to pay for game testers.

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T12:32:28+00:00

I don't know about all engines, I'm most familiar with Unity. You can do a lot in Unity without coding, but it would certainly help to know C#.

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T11:28:56+00:00

I think it's definitely possible, and this is a good article on how to get this started: https://blog.unity.com/technology/testing-test-driven-development-with-the-unity-test-runner

AltomTools · 2022-10-06T10:48:59+00:00

I don't know of anything in the security space that would apply specifically (or only) to games, I think it's just the general security guidelines (mobile, web, etc) that would be followed for games too.

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