I've always known game testing to be an important area of game development, as I've taken part in many alpha and beta releases of games but I never realized how much goes into them. Most of the time they are really well done, with only a few minor glitches and bugs, but the big-budget versions of these tests are usually closer to the release of the game as opposed to the start of the game, which was mentioned by the presenter in this YouTube video about playtesting.
The next part of this week's reading was about the different types of game testing techniques, which you can read here. It's boring. 7 different ways to test a game seem kind of pointless in my opinion, as the youtube video best put it, kids are the best ways to playtest a game, they're brutally honest. And to be honest, kids are bad at video games so they'll probably start going into useless areas of the game that good players would know not to go into, and probably find more bugs, just my opinion.
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