Testing is to find bugs and issues that exist in a product or title.
Quality Assurance is to prevent bugs and issues from being introduced into a product or title.
So the purpose of Game Testing is to find enough issues that can get fixed so that the product or title can ship.
The ship date is determined by several factors: money, schedule, contracts and one of those is the quality of the game. Testing helps raise the quality of the game (in most cases).
So, the purpose of testing is to find enough bugs that can be fixed within the schedule to make the product or title the best quality it can be before other considerations force it to ship and customers buy it.
If you are interested in finding out what it is like and learn more about game testing, PowerUpGames.com offers a course in Video Game Testing.
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The purpose of a Game Demo is to allow a potential customer to try out and get a feel for the game before purchasing it. Also to allow the player to see if they enjoy the game.
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Alpha testing is over. It was an early testing stage of the game back in 2008, preceding beta.
Beta is the pre release game for testing and does not have a charge but expires with the release of the game
Director or Game Designer. You will need industry experience to get either of these positions. Publishers just don't put down 1/2M - 20M on some unknown person. The easiest way to enter and gain experience is Video Game Testing. PowerUpGames.com offers a Video Game testing course that is online.