Re:Unit Testing is Overrated (2020)
by HelloNurse on Thursday April 07, 2022 @08:19AM
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Games are likely to benefit significantly from unit tests: architecture is complex and likely to be improved by adding clean boundaries and layers for the sake of testability; supporting automation is likely to enable useful features (e.g. deterministic simulations); tests are likely to be meaningful and important.
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Have you developed games at all, or are you just speaking from an armchair?
Re:Unit Testing is Overrated (2020)
by kelseyfrog on Thursday April 07, 2022 @11:39AM
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As a gamedev who writes unit tests, I agree with GP. Games benefit from unit tests. That, however, doesn't change the systemic incentives that prevent tests from being written. The ways that gamedev is budgeted/funded is a more important factor than more tests = a more stable/less buggy game.