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by ido 1472 days ago
Not sure if this is a joke but unit testing is generally not used in games, definitely not in plam games 20 years ago.
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Games use integration tests. You push a new build to steam and check reddit to see if it worked.
Hilarious post that's also sadly quite accurate.
That's the same way Microsoft tests their updates.
Unit testing is not too rare in (modern) games.

There's a comment on HN from a Rare employee going into how they do their testing, for example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14802509

Edit: It's a 5 year old thread and I have a few comments in there... Fuck I'm old.

> Unit testing is not too rare in (modern) games.

In my experience, unit testing is _incredibly_ rare, and Rare are pretty much the only studio that I'm aware of that do it.