Software Testing Contest in Brazil

Jose Carlos Maldonado
University of São Paulo at São Carlos, Brazil
Past President, Brazilian Computer Society

W. Eric Wong
Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Transactions on Reliability

The first IEEE contest on software testing in South America was organized in Brazil on September 17 at the University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos. It was technically sponsored by the IEEE Reliability Society and in collaboration with the 2018 Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSOFT) and Mooctest, Inc. First place received a cash prize of $300 USD, followed by $200 USD for 2nd. The 3rd to the 7th places each received $100 USD.

Professor W. Eric Wong, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, and 2 engineers from Mooctest (Mr. Yuan Zhao and Mr. Hao-Yu Li) attended the event to facilitate the contest. We would also like to give special thanks to Professor Auri Vincenzi and his students for all their support.

Students at the contestants on November 17, 2018

Award Ceremony on November 18, 2018

This contest is part of the ongoing effort to establish a family of IEEE International Contests on Software Testing, including those in China at regional, provincial, and national levels [1], in Europe (e.g., at QRS 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic [2] and QRS 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal [3]), and in the US (e.g., at the University of Texas at Dallas in January 2018 [4][5] and again in upcoming February 2019).

[1] Software Testing Contest in Nanjing, China, Vol. 63, No. 3, November 2017

[2] Software Testing Contest at the 17th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 17), July 26, 2017

[3] Software Testing Contest at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 18), July 17, 2018

[4] Software Testing Contest at UT-Dallas, Vol. 63, No. 2, May 2017

[5] A Very Successful Software Testing Contest at the University of Texas at Dallas, Vol. 64, No. 1, February 2018