FSE

The video game industry has experienced a continuous growth in the last decades. In such a competitive market, it is fundamental to ensure a great gaming experience to the player avoiding, for example, bugs. However, video game testing is an extremely ...

Challenges related to game quality, whether occurring during initial release or after updates, can result in player dissatisfaction, media scrutiny, and potential financial setbacks. These issues may stem from factors like software bugs, performance ...

As games challenge traditional automated white-box test generators, the Neatest approach generates test suites consisting of neural networks that exercise the source code by playing the games. Neatest generates these neural networks using an evolutionary ...

Research on game genres and player types has been one of the pillars of game studies, providing a theoretical foundation for effective game design and development practices. Therein, various player types are proposed when the players are classified based ...