Gaming industry today is one of the fastest growing entertainment industries. Game testing is a process of quality control of the software used in games. Indium, a leading Game Testing Services Company, uses industry-standard testing methods and quality assurance processes to meticulously test video games. Our team keeps an eye out for the issues that can potentially crash or break the game. We would like to break it before the users do! Functional, compliance and compatibility are the main cores of game testing and we have a dedicated team to provide support for the same. The team is also well versed in other aspects of testing like playthrough, multiplayer, regression, smoke, destructive testing, game balancing, integrity checks etc. It’s a standard practice to use checklists / test cases to minimize the amount of ad-hoc testing. The team works on titles from pre-alpha phase to release candidates. We continue to support games post release for maintenance and patches / DLC / updates. We also assist games with dev testing, focus groups, forum support, community managers and game admins

1. The asset base
The experience level
Cost competitiveness
Some of the qualities the publisher for included:
Indium’s game testing proved to be the right fit for the client because of our experience in testing across devices.
We were able to perform testing on:
Our testing lab houses mobile devices and Tablets of all kinds –Android, iOS, Windows and Amazon Kindle
We also have gaming PCs & Laptops to support game titles
We have experienced personnel, averaging 12 years of experience in game testing.
ADVANTAGE INDIUM
The client had attempted to create an in-house testing team but faced certain hurdles:
The ideal solution was to look for a testing partner with its own asset base to outsource quality assurance to.
Games need to be tested on the right devices for accurate quality assurance. For this, the client needed to
invest in the devices, which would become redundant after the game was released.
The second challenge was to hire key, experienced QA personnel, which added to the costs.
Assets also add to overhead costs, an additional drain on the finances of the publishing company.
In-house testing would dilute the focus of the company from publishing to managing the testing assets
KNOWLEDGE CHALLENGES
A leading global firm based in the US was developing a software tool for workforce management, employee attendance
marking, collecting labour data and generating attendance summary of a large workforce. The software was developed
using .NET technologies and AJAX and Oracle 10G was the database used.
TheThe client was scouting around for the right testing partner, one who had the capability to manage the testing process at
rapid speed, without sacrificing quality. Importantly, the QA team at the client site wanted a 100% automation-driven
testing process, to reduce time-to-release, for every build. Also, the project needed handling of multiple data sets for a
highly data intensive application.
CLIENT PROFILE
Reliability, quality assurance at competitive
costs make Indium the ideal testing partner for
this video games publisher.
Enhancing Software Quality

2. I can’t say enough about how great this team has been. We have had a launch on 4 platforms –first geo-locked, and
then world-wide. The team has been very adaptive to last minute overtime requests, and have done so cheerfully.
They have been integral to a very successful launch (we are number #3 in casino worldwide in Apple store).
We also have a 5 star rating in the Apple store. In other words –this team is excellent.
There is nothing they need to improve right now.
- QA Manager of a billion dollar gaming firm in US
BENEFITS OF INDIUM GAME TESTING
TOOLS
Defect Management Tool
–JIRA
15,000 test cases were developed
METRICS
Team size: 80
Duration: 7 + months
KEY PROJECT STATISTICS
We at Indium go the extra mile to make sure the projects we undertake are delivered successfully, on time, every time. To
ensure this, we equipped ourselves suitably:
Rapid scalability of resources –our team was beefed up from 8 to 80 in two months. This helped us complete
the project on time.
Infrastructure: We spruced up our infrastructure to suit the needs of the project, thus covering every aspect of
testing.
Effective Communication: Continuous interaction with the customers and their third party developers helped
us gain their confidence and test in real time.
SuggestionsSuggestions and Improvements: Based on our vast experience in game testing, we made suggestions to the
customer on game design and monetization. This not only got positive feedback, but the suggestions were
implemented and enhanced the quality.
BENEFITS OF INDIUM GAME TESTING
Execution –we worked closely with the client
right from the alpha stage of the project,
then beta, close master, soft launch, global
launch and maintenance, updates and
patches
Shared daily status report
Shared weekly status report
Tracked a milestone checklistTracked a milestone checklist
Maintained an iOS compliance and com-
patibility checklist
We maintained communication with the client, thus
retaining their trust and updating them of progress
periodically through multiple tiers:
Chat based –Skype, Slack
Audio conferencing bridges
Video conferencing bridges
Email communication
Bug database (JIRA/Mantis)
Our work was mapped out to include testing for:
Functionality
Compatibility
Compliance
Regressions
Smoke
Test case preparation
After understanding the requirements for the testing,
we invested in:
Purchase of mobile devices
Purchase of high end PCs
Network (exclusive leased line, backup
network lines)
Firewall
Hiring of full-time resources
BENEFITS OF USING iSAFE
These four steps ensure that the game to be tested is understood well, the test cases prepared, each level tested methodi-
cally and the client provided with the right information critical for thev success of the game.
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