MISSION 1

Severity, Reproducibility, Category, Scope, Location

1. Please list the bug severity we have in QADB (name and give 2 example bugs), follow the
colors listed below:

Severity
Color Example bug
name

2. Select the severity of the bugs below:

No. Bugs Severity

The bug happens anywhere in the game. When tester is playing the
1 game and receives a phone call then returns, he notices that the
game starts from the beginning again.
According to Gamelofts requirement, About section must be in Info
2
screen of the game, About is placed in Main Menu instead.
The bug happens in Main Menu. When tester clicks on Help buttons,
3 he notices that it doesnt have function. Tester cannot see what is
inside the Help section.
In the game Dragon Mania Legend, the smoke effect for the Smoke
4 Dragon doesnt look real. It looks like broken images with grey
squares.
The bug happens in Help section, tester notices that all the pages in
5
Help section are blank.
In Gamelofts requirement, there are some test cases about
6 permanent items. However, tester does not see any permanent items
in game. He wants to know if the game has permanent items or not.
The bug happens in Main Menu. When tester presses Play button,
7 the game crashes. Tester cannot play any level but can still test all
the section in Main Menu.
The game has 10 levels. When tester finishes level 9 and chooses
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level 10, the game crashes. He cannot test level 10.
When main character reaches the cemetery, the tester notices a tree
9
is cut off in the middle, making it look unreal.
When tester chooses the Bee-do costume for the minion and plays,
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the image of the minion doesnt show up, making it very hard to
 control the minion.

3. What does Practical Reproducibility mean?

4. How many kinds of Practical Reproducibility are there? What are they?

5. What is the different between "Hard to Repro, but Rule Known" and "Easy to Repro, but Rule
Unknown"? Give an example for each of them that are not already mentioned in slides.

6. If a bug occurs 8 out of 11 times trying, which Technical Reproducibility we'll use?

7. What is Scope and Category, and what are they used for?

8. Please give 1 example for each Scope that is not already mentioned in slides:

Scope Example bug

Audio
Sound quality
Function
Game mechanics / rules
Graphics
Models
Texture
Stability
Structure
Environment behavior
MC behavior
NPC behavior
Game Progression
HUD
Level Design
Visibility
Content
Navigation

9. Select the Category & Scope for the following case below:

No. Bug Category Scope

Trash pixels appear on screen when the phone wakes up
1
from idle status.
 The other cars always run so fast that user cannot surpass
2
any of them.
After entering the secret rooms 3 times continuously, now
3
MC can gains extra life each time he kills a normal NPC.

4 When user finishes a level, the Victory sound doesn't play.

After player shoots the ball, if it hits the bar, it will move
5
faster.
In 3D environment, after user interacts with a box, part of
6
the box disappears making it looks weird.
In the Score screen, bonus score is placed on the left while
7
other scores are placed on the right.
In Main menu, the Option entry is placed on top while New
8
game is placed on bottom of the list.
In the cut scene, the viewpoint does not focus on MC but it
9
points to the sky instead.
At beginning of each level, MC gets 3 lives. If the user let
him fall down to the hole twice, when the MC resurrects,
10
the user notices the number of lives is displayed as 0 on
top of the screen.

11 During a conversation, the MC says "Fuck you!"

On Result screen, the score on the screen is blue, same

12
color as the background.
In a game for kid, the boss Medusa doesn't seem to wear
13
any clothes.
When MC reaches an opened door, he cannot go through
14
it.
In a dungeon, whenever there are more than 10 enemies
15
on the field, the game crashes.

16 On HUD, the health bar's color is blue instead of red.

In Main menu, when user presses Settings button it doesn't

17 perform any action, however when user presses the button
once more, he is directed to Setting menu.
When hiding in the shadow, the NPC still discovers the MC
18
and triggers the alarm.
In a MMORPG game, user obtained 10 HP potions from
19 the quest. After user quits the game and returns, only 5 HP
potions remain in inventory.
When user starts a mission in the game Spiderman
20
Unlimited, no objective screen appears to tell user what to
 do.

21 Settings menu is missing from the Main Menu

After receiving a phone call and returning to the game, the

22 MC keeps doing the last action when the call arrived, user
cannot control the MC anymore.
"Customer Care" is translated to "Service Client" instead
23
of "Service Client"

When user attempts to change language to Japanese, the

language is changed throughout the game. However, when
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he quits and returns to the game, language of the game is
changed back to English.

The monster turns aggro and attack the MC if MC uses the

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healing spell near it.

10. What is External interrupt and Internal interrupt, when will you choose scope External,
Internal and Both?

11. In which situation we use "All" for location? In which situation we'll use "Where Applicable"
for location?

12. Give 2 examples of bug that has its location set as "Action phase" (with no sub location).