Articles tagged: testing

Bug Blog: TFT Bugs and Patches

In this article, I’ll be describing how we handle patches across PC and mobile for TFT, and how this relates to quality assurance. Later, I’ll tag in my engineering counterpart, Gavin Jenkins, to give a super techy point of view on patches, and we’ll dive into two use cases that demonstrate different types of patches and how we deploy them.

Full Story Posted by Alex Sherrell and Gavin Jenkins

The Legends of Runeterra CI/CD Pipeline

Hi, I’m Guy Kisel, and I’m a software engineer on Legends of Runeterra’s Production Engineering: Shared Tools, Automation, and Build team (PE:STAB for short). My team is responsible for solving cross-team shared client technology issues and increasing development efficiency. In this article I’m going to share some details about how we build, test, and deploy Legends of Runeterra, a digital collectible card game

Full Story Posted by Guy Kisel

Scalability and Load Testing for VALORANT

When VALORANT was still early in development, we had high hopes that in the future we’d launch with high initial popularity. From the beginning, we prioritized scalability to make sure we could support the number of players we were hoping for. Once VALORANT entered full production, we began working in earnest on a load test framework to prove out our tech. After many months of work, we successfully ran a load test of two million simulated players against one of our test shards, giving us the confidence we needed for a smooth launch. This article explains how we load tested our platform, and how we tackled the scaling challenges we encountered along the way. 

Full Story Posted by Keith Gunning

Controlled Chaos with Fault Injection Testing

Hi, I'm Doug Lardo, a solutions architect at Riot Games. In this article, I'm going to introduce the concept of Fault Injection Testing, and talk about the Riot Games API and how they implemented it. Then I’ll discuss our testing methods, what we found, and soap box a little bit about high availability design along the way.

Full Story Posted by Doug Lardo

404 Tech Blog Not Found: Welcome to the Bug Blog

So, why do Bug Blogs? Well, at Riot, we believe that a fundamental component of the development process is understanding that failures can and do happen. We make mistakes because we’re humans, and humans are far from perfect. And that’s okay! What’s important is to recognize failures for what they are, work to understand why they happened, learn from them, and make needed changes based on those learnings. That’s how we grow and that’s how we get better.

Full Story Posted by Jane Jeffers

Automated Testing for League of Legends

Hi, I’m Jim ‘Anodoin’ Merrill, and I work on test automation efforts for League of Legends, focused specifically on the in-game experience. I currently serve as the tech captain to the Build Verification System Development (BVS-Dev) team. In large part, our team builds tools for automated testing and helps teams write better tests.

Full Story Posted by Jim Merrill