Services

We provide partners with the critical information they need, empowering them to make the correct (and crucial) project or scheduling decisions that result in the highest cumulative impact. 

In today’s fast-paced environment, testing games for accessibility and platform certification testing is equally as important as functional testing. Submission testing includes meeting standards for various platform-specific requirements and software accessibility standards. Experis excels at providing our clients with informative results that help identify customer- and client-impacting issues.

Services

• Aggregate and track publishing requirements for first-party platforms like console and mobile publishers as they apply to your product 
• Give examples of how other games have met requirements to help with design, specification and testing 
• Pre-certification test passes to identify the feature fixes needed to meet your certification requirements  
• Certification test pass to help inform your game team's launch readiness and publishing decision for all known platforms (I.e., Steam, Windows Store, consoles, mobile) 
• Manage, communicate and track external publishing deadlines for necessary assets and build first-party platforms to submit and launch on time 
• Support end-to-end storefront services checks integrated with your product in collaboration with a dedicated QA functional team 

Additional Testing Standards 

• Accessibility Quality Standards
• Photosensitivity  
• Customer Standards 

Understanding how your game performs with millions of players is key to a successful launch and keeping players engaged for the entire game. We can help you configure group playtests or tools that provide your game development and product teams with the critical information they need to make it happen.

Group Playtests 

We find and staff large and secure playtest groups for your titles. You provide us with the number of concurrent players desired and a coverage area or test plan, and we will take care of the rest. 

• Concurrent Playtest Planning: Our leads guide you to configure a playgroup and a plan that begins, ramps up, and reacts according to your internal team's situation 
• Synchronized Scheduling and Execution: When it is time to test, the work of our lead gets the team started and orchestrates them step by step until you say stop
• Lockstep Teamwork: Our leads understand that group tests are more of a dance than a motion. Our playtests are conducted by someone listening to your teams and making on-the-fly adjustments to your development team or backend tools to get the most out of your pass.
• Compilation and Recommendation: After a playtest, our leads compile partner and vendor data into a report that is easy to understand and act on with your development, operations, and other teams 

Tools and Automation

• Requirements Gathering: Our tool engineers know how to work with your teams and gather requirements to achieve the stress and load results you seek
• Design and Conquer: Before anything is built, our engineers will reach out to your team to understand the parameters of automation that produce valuable feedback. Questions such as, "What does your backend look like?” “What telemetry are you trying to gather?” “What gameplay can we perform to create that data?" 
• Bespoke Engineering: Experis Game Solutions tool engineers will dive down into your title's client, backend, deployment, or operations to understand where they can interface automation with your game 

Experis Game Solutions can take the entire compatibility testing process out of your hands. We do this with labs that test your software on all the devices and operating systems necessary. With Experis Game Solutions, you will have a partner that considers the release testing and intended launch factors as early as possible. This approach makes for a much smoother release that mitigates risk and last-minute scrambles.

Configuration:  Verification of product functionality and stability on a high market share of hardware across supported operating systems and multiple driver versions for associated hardware. Coverage is comprised of desktop PCs (OEM and custom), laptops, tablets, processors, hard drives, memory, sound cards, graphic cards and related hardware chipsets.  

Networking & Multiplayer:  Verification testing on a multitude of networking hardware, multiple connection types, player count verification, bandwidth simulation/limitation scenarios, network services testing, investigation of connectivity issues and testing various requirements to ensure proper functionality and a positive user experience. 

Photosensitivity & Epilepsy:  Verification with the aid of specialized hardware and software to verify no graphic-related conditions exist in titles that could trigger harmful reactions to persons that are sensitive to the display of certain graphics, lighting and special effects.  

First-Party Devices:  Verification of stability and functionality across all relevant partner first-party devices, while providing reliable metrics and a detailed user experience of how software performs across these devices. 

Applications/Antivirus Accessories:  Verification of title’s performance and functionality with high market share background applications, antivirus software and user-input accessories. Service includes verification of basic functionality and performance comparison to ensure no high-level issues or significant performance impacts occur when running the application and title in tandem.  

Mobile Devices:  Verification of product compatibility, performance, accessibility and stability on a high market share of mobile devices.  

Accessibility Compliance:  Verification of product support for all partner accessibility guidelines relating to functionality and network communication, to ensure support for Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) requirements. This ensures ease of access for those living with a disability.

In today's connected world, software must connect to servers and remain stable while meeting network traffic requirements for certification across multiple platforms. Experis Game Solutions has experienced teams which utilize industry standard tools with dozens of years of experience that have come together to define the testing flow for connected titles. This work ranges from PC to mobile, to the latest generation of consoles.