Customised Services for a Dynamic Market The video games industry is growing really fast. The number of players continues to increase exponentially. More and more games are being produced. Games are growing bigger, faster, more complex, and more realistic. The number of platforms is increasing and the platforms themselves are becoming more technologically sophisticated and innovative to enhance the user experience. Gamers from around the globe are becoming ever more proficient at gaming.

The industry has to meet this demand within the stringent constraints of cost, time-to-market and marketing deadlines. Effective and optimal offshoring is the key to achieving these multiple challenging objectives. SQS Game Testing has set up a worldwide centre of excellence in games testing.

From this centre of excellence SQS provides a full set of testing services:

• Functional Testing – to ensure that the games’ functions such as collisions, players, attributes, menus, events, button functions, scoring/statistics function according to the game design.
• Compatibility Testing – to ensure that the game functions consistently, without conflicts with any other standard software across all of the typical PC configurations on the market.
• Multiplayer Testing – to ensure that games designed to be played across the Internet or a local network deliver the goods. These tests ensure that games provide a smooth multiplayer gaming experience for end users.
• MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) – to test a computer game that is capable of supporting thousands of players simultaneously and is played online on the Internet.
• Localisation Testing – to ensure that local language version of games perform consistently with the original versions.
• Compliance Testing – to ensure that games perform as designed to comply with pre-defined standards, rules or technical requirement documents such as TCR/TRC, Lot Check, etc.
• Game Play Testing – to give a professional and independent evaluation of the game play quality, such as realism of animation and fight damage, balance of the game, exploits etc.
• Independent Evaluation – to provide a third party evaluation of game quality and handling.