Software Testing World Cup 2014 - An Experience Share

July 25th is not just a day, but mainly a second chance to Testers (including us) in Asia who missed to try their hands on June 7th, when due to some technical difficulties the competition was moved to this date :)

Personally I felt happy to see a mail with the message about new date, same as my Teammates felt.

This time we thought somehow to make it happen, though the competition is on a working day (Friday, 25th July 9:30 AM to 12:30 AM IST).

After some mild preparation not anything technical, but on "How and what to do on the day?". Finally the day arrived. Two of my teammates Anand and Sukanya were with me in the meeting room in our office and the fourth teammate Lakshmi being in Germany, connected with us via Telephone and Webex from here home at 5.30 AM German Time.

We were getting ready and waiting for the mail from STWC about the Instruction and SWs to be tested. Meanwhile, our teammate in Germany was trying to connect to mIRC(Internet Relay Chat) channel through which we can interact with the judges and other teams, ask questions, share...

The competition is for three hours, at the start time, we got the mail with necessary instructions on how to go on. After some discussion we selected to test a Website - NBA

Other two being :

- Excelon Development website: www.xndev.com
- HP Quality Bank: QualityBank.zip (Windows only)

Still we were not able to connect to the channel, which was a setback to us. Throughout the competition we were disconnected from the others .

We were determined, we have selected our SUT(System Under Test) and started the competition, whether or not our team is going to Win or even be a part, we would continue to test the site, file the bug and send them the Test Report.

With some serious efforts from our team, we were able to find and in parallel report the bugs using HP Agile Manager with relevant attachments. At the closure of the event, we prepared the Test Report and submitted to the STWC Team.

Results were announced on 29th Sept. Happily, Our Team was listed in the Ranking, 19th place to  "Bosch Testers" (Later we came to know from the organisers, that around 250 teams have registered, but not sure how many left the competition because of mIRC connection issue :( )

http://www.softwaretestingworldcup.com/stwc-2014-winner-asia.php

Something to pat on our shoulders, may be if we were able to interact with the judges another 10 points would have improved in our ranking. Nevertheless, WE MADE IT !!!

Bosch Testers

Anand Shanmugam

Lakshmi Shree

Ramaguru Radhakrishnan 

Sukanya MB

Winners are

Nicole Niu

Humphrey Chen

Eva Hao

Harris Wei

Congrats to them :) 

For those of you who are not aware of what STWC is ?

The Software Testing World Cup (STWC) is an event for testing practitioners to show off their skills and compete with other testing professionals. It brings the testing craft into the spotlight and gives the profession a competitive event on a global scale.

Hoping something much better in next edition of STWC :)

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