System and method for automated testing

Abstract

Provided is an automation suite designed to automate game and web testing. The system may be driven by a scripting engine that makes use of OCR and object recognition and rapid image analysis to perform its automation tasks. The system may perform its tasks individually or collectively, potentially spawning numerous clients capable of communication and coordinating with one another.

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technical field [0001] The present disclosure relates to testing of games, and in particular, to an automatic testing system and method for games. Background technique [0002] Modern games, especially in the MMO space, are becoming increasingly complex. Most games in this category contain hundreds of systems and have development teams numbering in the hundreds. Huge amounts of content are generated for MMOs every day and testing teams are expected to test everything for accuracy and completeness. [0003] A typical test team might easily consist of 10 to 30 members depending on the range of games they support. Typically, these testers are expected to perform manual testing "regression", or what can be considered a "walk-through" of the entire game, to ensure that nothing breaks during development. This process is often time-consuming and inefficient because testers are actually looking for issues they have found in the past, or simply verifying that expected functionalit...

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It can also be very time consuming as testers have to wait for each other to reach a certain state before proceeding

[0004] Some efforts have been made to remedy such deficiencies, but such efforts usually only allow human testers to save keystrokes through the use of macros

Besides that, many of these existing systems are only tested on the internal game memory, which can be a disadvantage

In addition, such systems often require knowledge of the state the system is in, which can also be detrimental

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