Software plays an integral part in our everyday lives because of its near-ubiquitous influence in our increasingly technological society. It has significant impacts on the improvement of efficiency, reliability, security, and safety of many service-oriented and mission-critical systems.
These goals, however, cannot be well accomplished if the software is not properly tested. Many lessons aim to provide students with the fundamental knowledge and techniques of software testing. However, they often ignore industry practices and can hardly offer real-world testing experience to students. To address this problem and to promote advanced software testing theory, techniques, and tools, the Technical Committee on System and Software Assurance of IEEE Reliability Society, the Dallas Chapter of IEEE Reliability Society, in collaboration with the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as other sponsors such as Mooctest Inc. have organized multiple IEEE International Contests on Software Testing at different venues in recent years.
The upcoming contest will be held on March 30 (Saturday) in hybrid mode, both in-person in ECSS 2.102 (TI auditorium) at the UT Dallas campus and online.
This contest aims to bring real-world testing and tool-using experience to the participants and provide them with excellent opportunities to overcome industry testing challenges with their learned testing techniques.
All the contestants should watch the video and complete a practice test at http://www.mooctest.net/ to get familiar with the Mooctest platform before participating in the contest.
☞ Click here to watch the tutorial on Youtube.
Although the contest is free of charge, all the contestants are required to complete their registrations at the contest registration site by March 29.
Each contestant will receive a certificate for attending this contest.
Winners will also receive cash prizes as stated below.
| Rank | Name + Prize |
|---|---|
| 1st Place | Logan Dane ($300 USD Prize) |
| 2nd Place | Fnu Khaja Airaj Uddin Najaf ($200 USD Prize) |
| 3rd Place | Venkata Satya Vyshnavi Ryali ($100 USD Prize) |
| 4th Place | Nikhilesh Gorrepati ($100 USD Prize) |
| 5th Place | Yashvi Chandreshkumar Modi ($100 USD Prize) |
| 6th Place | Matthew Allen Haskell ($75 USD Prize) |
| 7th Place | Sumanth Chalavadi ($75 USD Prize) |
| 8th Place | Nishchal Devkota ($75 USD Prize) |
| 9th Place | Nithin Sai Muthuluri ($50 USD Prize) |
| 10th Place | Bhargav Kirtikumar Patel ($50 USD Prize) |
| 11th Place | Dharmila Chowdary Andra ($50 USD Prize) |
Win 10 or MacOS with Java 8 and Eclipse installed and Maven set up.
Here are the Java and Maven installation guides.
Eclipse with MoocTest Plugin: Windows 64 bit and Mac (Please download the correct version of Eclipse with the MoocTest plugin for your language and operating system).
Please also watch the tutorial video for more details.
For Mac OS, add mvn to /usr/local/bin/mvn or /usr/bin/env
and run the Eclipse Alia executable file to open the Eclipse.
In addition, you can download the MoocTest Eclipse Plugin and Eclipse separately and add/install the Plugin yourself.
This contest will be held in ECSS 2.102 (TI auditorium) at the UT Dallas campus.
Online contestants will join via Zoom (Meeting ID: 895 5673 7619, Passcode: 185255).
