Challenge Overview
Project Overview
Media Share is an app that allows users to easily share photos / videos / urls to others. It relies on a central server to share media and users can share from web, android app or iOS app.
Contest Objective
The goal of this competition is to focus on testing of Android app and the server. All use cases in the provided test scenarios must be tested.
You should focus on testing the functions. We do NOT want trivial issues like some icons / layouts don't look good, typos, colors, and stuff like that. Focus on FUNCTIONS.
Contest Guidelines
The guidelines for this contest are given below:
- As issues are identified they need to be logged in JIRA.
- Issues must include clear descriptions, test cases and steps to reproduce and expected vs. actual results in order to be counted.
- First competitor to find an issue gets credit, duplicates will not be counted.
- Reviewers will accept, reject or mark the issues as duplicate.
- Please DO take a look at the reported bugs, duplicated bugs cost your work time and the reviewer's time.
- Please focus on funtional testing. We don't need bug reports on typos, spelling errors and any trivial issues like this, all such issues will be rejected and will not count
Important Notice:
You must also be the first person to report the issue and submit it while submission phase is open. JIRA will allow you to file issues before and after the submission phase, but these will NOT be counted.
Technologies
- Android
- HTML
- Node.js
Provided Resources
The following documentation will be available in the contest forum:
- Test Scenarios
- Android app
Final Submission Guidelines
Bug Report Process
Bug Report Format
For each report of a limitation or bug, we need the following information:
- Steps to reproduce, including any needed information
- Screen shots (if applicable)
- Expected results after the bug is fixed
- Current results, before the bug is fixed
- Android Browser type and version (type can be Chrome, Firefox, etc...)
- Android OS version / Device model
Important Notice:
- If you do not properly document your bug reports, they will likely be rejected due to lack of information or documentation. Also, make sure your bug reports are reasonably general.
- If you submit the same bug that is seen in multiple screens, for instance, you will likely only get credit for the original bug report. The others will all be closed as duplicates.
Ticket Logging
You will log your tickets here: https://apps.topcoder.com/bugs/browse/HPBU and when creating a bug you MUST select the MediaShare-Android-1.0 component. Bugs will not be counted if a selection is not made.
Scoring
- For scoring, the submitter with the most accepted bugs will win. There's no second place winner.
- For submitters who submit but don't take first or second, if they submit bugs that aren't covered in the first place submission, they will receive $5 for each unique bug reported up to a maximum of half the 1st place prize.
Important Notice:
If two submitters submit the same bug report, the submitter who submitted the report first into JIRA will get credit for the bug. The second submitter will not.
Tips
Some of the tips helpful for the contest are:
- Submitting what is obviously the same issue multiple times with small variations will only annoy the reviewer that has to sort through all the issues and will only count as one issue anyway. If it's less obvious if it is the same issue or not, use your best judgment and the reviewers will do the same.
- Put an eye on the issues being submitted by other members to minimize the time you may be spending on duplicate efforts. Knowing what has already been reported will allow you to better focus your time on finding yet undiscovered issues.
- Double check your steps to reproduce and test cases to make sure they are clear. Make sure your steps include creation of any necessary data.
Submission Deliverables
- For each member, the final submission should be uploaded to the Online Review Tool.
- You must not include any identifying information, such as your handle, in your submission. Your submission should be anonymous and you will be scored down in screening for not complying.