An Agent-based Approach to Automated Game Testing: an Experience Report

I. S. W. B. Prasetya; Fernando Pastor Ricós; Fitsum Kifetew; Davide Prandi; Samira Shirzadeh-hajimahmood; Tanja E. J. Vos; Premysl Paska; Karel Hovorska; Raihana Ferdous; Angelo Susi; Joseph Davidson

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An Agent-based Approach to Automated Game Testing: an Experience Report

I. S. W. B. Prasetya, Fernando Pastor Ricós, Fitsum Kifetew, Davide Prandi, Samira Shirzadeh-hajimahmood, Tanja E. J. Vos, Premysl Paska, Karel Hovorska, Raihana Ferdous, Angelo Susi, Joseph Davidson

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Computer games are very challenging to handle for traditional automated testing algorithms. In this paper we will look at intelligent agents as a solution. Agents are suitable for testing games, since they are reactive and able to reason about their environment to decide the action they want to take. This paper presents the experience of using an agent-based automated testing framework called \ivxr\ to test computer games. Three games will be discussed, including a sophisticated 3D game called Space Engineers. We will show how the framework can be used in different ways, either directly to drive a test agent, or as an intelligent functionality that can be driven by a traditional automated testing algorithm such as a random algorithm or a model based testing algorithm.

Original language	English
Publisher	arXiv
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3548659.3561305
Publication status	Published - 11 Nov 2022

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