Next Steps - Introduction

Lesson 6.1 - Project Optimization

Lesson 6.2 - Research and Troubleshooting

6.3 - Sharing your Projects & Database

Get introduced to the final course section on preparing for the Unity Certified User exam and finishing your Personal Project.

Explore core optimization techniques to boost project performance, especially for larger mobile and web builds.

Learn to research and troubleshoot online while adding features to Prototype 1, such as switching between two cameras with a key press.

In this final Unit, you will prepare to continue developing your Unity and C# skills independently, including learning how to complete your personal project and how to troubleshoot and optimize your project to continue to practice and refine your QA testing skills.

Create with Code - Unit 6: Optimization & QA

Who is a Quality Assurance Tester?

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The QA Testing Process

Course Introduction

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Install Unity Software

Lesson 1.1 - Start your 3D Engines 

Lesson 1.2 - Pedal to the Metal

Lesson 1.3 - High Speed Chase

Lesson 1.4 - Get into the Driver's Seat

Challenge 1 - Programming a Plane

Lab 1 - Create a Project Design Document

Unit 2 - Introduction

Lesson 2.1 - Player Positioning

Lesson 2.2 - Food Flight

Lesson 2.3 - Random Animal Stampede

Lesson 2.4 - Making Collision Decisions

Challenge 2 - Play a Game of Fetch

Lab 2 - Create a New Project with Primitives

Unit 3 - Introduction

Lesson 3.1 - Jump Force 

Lesson 3.2 - Make the World Whiz By

Lesson 3.3 - Don't Just Stand There

Lesson 3.4 - Working with Particles and Sound Effects

Challenge 3 - Creating Balloons, Bombs, & Booleans

Lab 3 - Establishing Player Control

Unit 4 - Introduction

Lesson 4.1 - Watch Where You’re Going

Lesson 4.2 - Follow the Player

Lesson 4.3 - PowerUp and CountDown

Lesson 4.4 - Creating Gameplay Loops

Challenge 4 - Scripting Soccer

Lab 4 - Creating Basic Gameplay

Unit 5 - Introduction

Lesson 5.1 - Clicky Mouse

Lesson 5.2 - Keeping Score

Lesson 5.3 - Game Over

Lesson 5.4 - What’s the Difficulty? (Copy)

Challenge 5 - Whack-a-Food Game

Lab 5 - Swapping out Assets

Assessing your job readiness

Starting your Search for a QA Tester Role

Interviews and Advice

Quiz 1

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Quiz 3

Quiz 4

Quiz 5

Explore what quality assurance is, common QA tests, career paths, and key traits of effective QA testers.

Get an overview of common software testing types and levels used to validate applications.

In this project you will be introduced to the concept of Quality Assurance and the kinds of roles available and the requirements needed to start a career in testing. You will also hear from QA Testers on what are good traits of a tester, why to go into testing, and the typical day on the job as a tester. Finally you will learn about the common types and levels of software testing. 

Introduction to Quality Assurance Testing

Get an overview of the course structure, goals, and tips to make the most of your learning experience.

Follow guided steps to create a Unity ID and install Unity Hub, the Unity Editor, and Visual Studio.

Start your first Unity project in Unity Hub, place a drivable vehicle and obstacle, set a following camera, and customize your Unity Editor layout.

Learn to script basic vehicle movement, add physics components for collisions, and duplicate road objects in the Hierarchy window.

Script a C# camera follow system using variables so the camera tracks a vehicle and keeps the road in view.

Script keyboard input so your vehicle accelerates, turns with arrow keys, and then write a simple QA test script.

Apply driving skills to fly a plane, control pitch, set a following camera, and log bug reports.

Plan your personal project by defining its concept, scope, timeline, and sketching a minimum viable product in a Design Document.

Check your understanding of the skills and concepts covered in Unit 1 of the course.

In this Unit, you will be introduced to the course, then you will download and install the Unity software. You will then you will program a car moving side-to-side on a floating road, trying to avoid (or hit) obstacles in the way. In addition to becoming familiar with the Unity editor and workflow, you will learn how to create new C# scripts and do some simple programming. By the end of the Unit, you will be able to call basic functions, then declare and tweak new variables to modify the results of those functions. 

Create with Code - Unit 1 - Getting Started and Player Control

This introductory video for Unit 2 outlines how you will implement basic gameplay in your project.

Create a new prototype project and script side-to-side player movement that stays within the play area using if-then logic.

Implement a projectile prefab launched with the spacebar and add boundaries that remove projectiles and animals leaving the game area.

Learn to script a spawner that creates random animal prefabs at the top of the screen when the user presses the S key.

Configure timed spawning, collisions, and a Game Over state while practicing test scripts to improve QA skills.

Practice arrays, randomization, collision detection, and bug reporting by coding a dog that catches falling balls before they land.

Build a starter Unity project using primitive GameObjects and simple materials with a clear camera setup.

Use this quiz to check your understanding of the skills and concepts presented in Unit 2.

In this Unit, you will program a top-down game with the objective of throwing food to hungry animals - who are stampeding towards you - before they can run past you. In order to do this, you will become much more familiar with some of the most important programming and Unity concepts, including if-then statements, random value generation, arrays, collision detection, prefabs, and instantiation. In completing this Unit, you will learn how to program a basic game with the ability to launch projectiles and maneuver the player to keep the game alive. 

Create with Code - Unit 2 - Basic Gameplay

This introductory video previews Unit 3, where you implement Animation, audio, and particle effects in Unity.

Build a simple runner prototype where a player character jumps over spawning obstacles using a spacebar-controlled setup.

Implement a looping background, obstacle cleanup, and collision-based game over using script communication in your runner game.

Animate your character’s running, jumping, and death states with an Animator Controller and sync their timing to gameplay.

Add sound and particle effects to character actions and use exploratory testing to evaluate your prototype.

Troubleshoot a physics-based balloon game with scrolling backgrounds, timed spawns, effects, and detailed bug reporting.

Program constrained player movement based on input and begin applying unit testing to validate your code.

Use this quiz to check your understanding of the skills and concepts covered in Unit 3.

In this Unit, you will program a fast-paced endless side-scrolling runner game where the player needs to time jumps over oncoming obstacles to avoid crashing. In creating this prototype, you will learn how to add music and sound effects, completely transforming the experience of your projects. You will also learn how to create dynamic endless repeating backgrounds, which are critical for any side-scrolling games. Finally, you will learn to incorporate particle effects like splatters and explosions, which make your games so much more satisfying to play.  

Create with Code - Unit 3: Sounds & Effects

Get an overview of Unit 4, where you will start implementing new gameplay mechanics.

Build a prototype where the camera orbits an island and a textured sphere moves forward or backward with player input.

Create a textured enemy sphere that spawns randomly, chases the player, and can knock them off the island.

Create a randomly spawning powerup that temporarily boosts player strength and visually indicates its active state.

Build a wave-based Spawn Manager that increases enemy counts and spawns a powerup each wave to intensify gameplay.

Test and fix a soccer-based prototype by applying QA skills to enemy waves, powerups, and scoring behavior.

Configure non-player objects with movement, collisions, prefabs, and spawning to establish your game’s core gameplay.

Check your understanding of the skills and concepts covered in Unit 4 with this quiz.

In this Unit, you will program an arcade-style Sumo battle with the objective of knocking increasingly difficult waves of enemies off of a floating island, using power ups to help defeat them. In creating this prototype, you will learn how to implement new gameplay mechanics into your projects, which are new rules or systems that make the game more interesting to play. On one hand, you will learn to program a powerup, which give the player a temporary advantage. On the other hand, you will learn to program increasingly difficult enemy waves, which make survival more challenging for the player. A good balance of powerups and increasing difficulty make for a much more interesting gameplay experience.  

Create with Code - Unit 4: Gameplay Mechanics

This intro video for Unit 5 outlines what you will do to design and implement a user interface in Unity.

Build a 2D project where good and bad targets spawn with random motion and are destroyed when the player clicks them or they exit the screen.

Add a scoring UI, assign point values to targets, and trigger particle explosions when objects are destroyed on click.

Create Game Over text and a Restart Game button that stop spawning targets, reset the score, and let users replay the game.

Finish your game by designing a title menu with difficulty buttons that adjust how quickly targets spawn.

Debug a whack-a-mole-style UI game by fixing buttons, clicks, scoring, difficulty, and restart behavior.

Replace placeholder primitives with 3D models from the course library or Unity Asset Store and functionally test that gameplay still behaves as designed.

Use this quiz to check your understanding of the skills and concepts from Unit 5.

In this Unit, you will program a game to test the player’s reflexes, where the goal is to click and destroy objects randomly tossed in the air before they can fall off the screen. In creating this prototype, you will learn how to implement a User Interface - or UI - into your projects. You will add a title screen with a difficulty select menu that will control how challenging the gameplay is, you will add a score display that will track how many points the player has earned, and you will add a Game Over screen, which will allow the player to restart and try again. In learning these skills, you will be able to create a fully “playable” experience that the user can enjoy from start to finish without having to restart the application to try it again.

Create with Code - Unit 5: User Interfaces (UI)

Reflect on your current skills, identify areas to improve, and begin preparing for job readiness.

Review final resources and key considerations to prepare for applying to your first job as a QA Tester.

Learn practical interview preparation tips as you complete the QA Pathway.

In this project you will review and prepare as you take the next steps to getting your first job as a QA Tester. 

Next Steps for Job Readiness

QA, which stands for quality assurance, is a position that tests and assures the quality of software, websites, applications, programs, and more. A QA tester is the last line of defense between the consumer and a broken product. They're a vital part of a development team with a focus on uncovering bugs and issues to help fix and improve items before releasing to a customer or company. In completing the QA Tester Pathway, you will learn what QA testing is, the QA testing process, basics of the C# and how to analyze code, practice testing and analyzing your own code to help you learn the skills it takes to be a QA tester. 

This pathway leverages Unity's popular Create with Code course and expands it by including development lifecycle and where and how QA plays a role.  While this pathway will be game-centric and the coding language you will learn is C# the skills and competencies you learn in developing, testing and troubleshooting will be applicable to a wide-variety of QA testing roles. As you work through the pathway you will also create your own project and through building, troubleshooting and testing your project you will apply the coding and QA skills you learned to understand the development lifecycle and where and how QA plays a role. In addition to these core technical competencies, you will learn how to manage a project from start to finish: coming up with a concept, creating a project plan, prioritizing tasks, and hitting milestones. 

3D assets for this course were generously provided by our partner, Synty Studios, and are not for commercial use. If you would like to use any of the 3D assets from this course in commercial projects, please purchase one of the asset packs from Synty Studios’ 