The second IEEE contest on software testing in South America was organized in Brazil on September 23, 2019. It was technically sponsored by the IEEE Reliability Society and in collaboration with the 10th Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSoft) and Mooctest, Inc. The first place received a cash prize of $300 USD, followed by the 2nd for $200 USD, and five 3rd places each received $100 USD.

Professor W. Eric Wong (Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Reliability), Professor Auri Vincenzi (Federal University of São Carlos), and two engineers from Mooctest, Inc. (Mr. Yuan Zhao and Mr. Xufan Zhang) attended the conference to facilitate the contest.

We would like to give special thanks to Professor Ivan Machado (General Chair of CBSoft 2019 and Professor of Computer Science Department at Federal University of Bahia), Professor Jose Carlos Maldonado (University of São Paulo at São Carlos and Past President of Brazilian Computer Society), Professor Zhenyu Chen (Nanjing University, China), their students, and engineers at Mooctest, Inc. for all their support.

Winners of the software testing contest at CBSoft 2019