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In 2018 I wrote an article for the book “Game AI Pro 4” called “Automated AI Testing: Simple tests will save you time.” The book has since been canceled, but the article is now available online on the Game AI Pro website.

The history of this is that in 2017 there was a round table at the Game Developer Conference about AI testing. And despite it being the year 2017, automated testing was barely even mentioned. It was a terrible round table. A coworker who sat in the audience with me said to me that I could have given a better talk because I had invested a lot of work into automated testing. So next year I submitted a talk about automated AI testing and was rejected. But they asked me to write for the book instead. Now the book is canceled, too. A copy of the article is below, with some follow ups at the end. It’s written for people who have never done automated testing, like the AI programmers at the round table. But I think the core trick of doing fiber-based control flow, that can wait for things to happen, could be widely useful: