Team 4 Testing Plan Sprint 4

Unit Testing

PlayerActionsTest

A simple test was added to PlayerActions which checked if isPlayerDead returns the correct value when the player is alive. This test creates a simple Player object, and checks the value of isPlayerDead that was set upon creation.

User Testing

Overall User Testing

In this sprint, our team did not conduct any user testing as our main priority was reformatting the wiki, simple player movement improvements, and cleaning up previous code.

Potential areas for user testing concern the simple player movement improvements made. A simple user test could involve having the user run through the game with the updated player movement, and then with the updated player movement. Observations regarding the user's completion time and death count could be made to indicate the success of the changes. Additionally, the user could be asked a series of questions following the gameplay to determine their thoughts about the differences in movement.

1. Which game did you find easier (improved or non-improved)? Why?
2. What aspects of the players updated movement would you change further?
3. Which aspects of the obstacles did you find hardest to complete with the improved movement? How does this compare to the non-improved movement?

etc...

Updated Level Design User Testing

During this sprint, a task based user test was conducted for level 2 and 3 to determine the functionality of the implemented interactive elements in gameplay.

The participants were asked to complement 3 tasks, including:

1. Unlock a door by pressing the button.
2. Activate the bridge by pressing the button.
3. Complete the level by reaching the portal.

No data for this user test was taken, as it was purely observation-based.

However, from the observations made during this user test, all participants were able to easily complete the 3 given tasks.

Through this test, we were able to determine that the functionality of the interactive elements is adequate for the current game. Some suggestions to improve the current elements included, creating different views for the button to allow it to lie flat on the floor obstacles instead of being upright. These suggestions will be taken into consideration in the future.