Test Cases For Games Apps / Checklist for Games Apps

Test Cases For Games Apps:

Mobile Game Testing
Check for background music and sound effects
	ON/OFF sound & background music
	Receive the call and check
	Verify if sound effects are in sync with action
	ON/OFF device sound(native sound) and check
	Check for vibration effect if present
User Interface	Check in Landscape/Portrait mode
	Check for animation, movement of character, graphics, Zoom In/Out (all gestures) etc
	There should not be any clipping (cutted background)
	Test whether one object overlaps with another
	Verify if loading indicator is displayed wherever required
	Character should not move out of the screen/specified area
	Test for enable and disable images/icons/buttons etc
	Check for screen title
	Check for message title, message description, label (should be appropriate)
	Check scrolling
	Font displayed (color, size etc)
	Check other objects too (ex -if its a car race- you need to look at road, people, other objects like buildings etc)
Performance	Check the loading time of a game
	Make sure that any action is not taking considerable time, game flow should be fast
Score	score calculation
	Verify leaderboards General/All time/Weekly/local etc
	Check the score registration functionality
	Check the format (whether, comma is required in score etc ideally if customer is a foriegner coma should be in millions not in thousands )
	Check for level completion syncs with the score
Time Out	Check for time out
	Do the actions when time-out yet to happen
Multitasking	Switch b/w different apps and play game , check for sound, score, UI, time-out etc
Pause	Check if game is paused when call received or multitasking or sleep mode
Save Settings	Turnoff and ON device, check if settings are saved
	Log out /On , check same
	User should not loose his game in above conditions
User profile	Put a all types of images in Player profile and check
	Put special character, numbers,space in username and check
	Password should be in masked
Chat feature	Check the profile images
	max limit of chat description
	Enter empty string, special character and check
	For a opponent , there should be a notification that he has received a message
Functionality	Check game area, game logic
	play till last level
	get the cheat codes from development team and check all the levels
	Check for the features that will be unlocked level-wise
	Check for bonus score
	Check the score hike when level gets increased
	Check for multi-tap action (example in a car race we hold accelerator and left/right turn button simultaneously)
	Menu options
	Different game modes/location
Help & About Screen	Should be in easily understandable format
	free from spelling mistakes
	URL should be hyperlinked (depends)
Multiplayer game	Session expiry check
	login/log out
	Registration (Sign Up)
	Verify account (receive verification mail)
	login with registered but not verified account (without clicking verification link)
	Forgot password checks (many cases here)
	Game flow
	Check for WIN/lost/Draw
	Check user statistics graph
	Challenge/Decline challenge/receive challenge
	Check for forfeit
	Check when player 2’s turn is on Player 1 is not able to do actions (should not be able to forfeit also)
	Check for pass turn
	Check for time-out (for one player)
	Check the score for both the players till game ends
Memory leak	Check the game when device memory is low
Network (n/w) check	N/w messages if n/w is not present
	check if what happens when n/w not present and user plays a move (whether score submitted for that move etc)
Check for localization	Should be Support of different languages
Check for time format	Change the device time , format etc
Size	User wont like if your game takes lot of device space, so keep one eye on game file size
Device , OS	Check in supported screen sizes and os versions (basicaly depend upon Client requirement)
Depends on platform	Sometime we need to check as per OS guidliness as well. For ex in Wp7 we need to check in 2 background (light/dark).
Check Share options	Post score via mail/FB/Twitter
	Check the posted/sent messages in FB/Twitter/Mail. Check links are hyperlinked and application icon is displayed in the post (depends)
	If twitter integration is a manual ( custom UI developed by developer), check what happens when u enter more than 140 chars (as twitter limit is 140)
Music playing during app launche	If music player running and we start installing any game app, music player should pauses without prompting for the user permission. Steps for checking this: 1. Play a music file. 2. Launch the application. 3. Verify that while the application loads, it does not pause, resume or stop the actively playing music.
Interuption	If app(game) is in running mode, then Check the behaviour of interuption like like Bluetooth, Infra red and CALL/SMS/MMS.
Upgrade the game / Battery effect	Upgrade of Games to the latest version and while migration all data should persist [ score, user profile etc ]
	What if Battery goes down/switched of the cell while playing, Wheter the score wil get saved?