Other Resources and Methods to Consider


Once the method is in place, it becomes a matter of finding resources to execute the preceding plan. A common question is how many quality assurance staff should a company hire? Microsoft is often cited as having a 1:1 tester-to-developer ratio. Gaming companies rarely have the financial resources to achieve more than 1:3 or 1:7; the key lies in finding the balance for your company. Hire too many testers, and they won't have enough work to do; hire too few and there will be gaps in your testing strategy.

You should also use quantitative methods to monitor the progress of your testing. Defect seeding consists of purposefully inserting bugs into the code to see how many of them are found and to estimate how many actual bugs remain in the program. The formula [McConnell01] generally states that Total Defects equal the number of planted defects divided by the number of found defects, times the new defects found:

For example, if 30 defects are planted throughout the code and your testers find 14 of those along with 40 new ones, it is likely that the code contains about () 40 = 85 defects, of which 45 remain to be found.




Secrets of the Game Business
Secrets of the Game Business (Game Development Series)
ISBN: 1584502827
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 275

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