A month or more back when i logged on my Linkedin Profile ; i saw something happening as part of Competition. Initially i thought it was Performance test competition.working on performance i was excited to learn about the different perspective/tool of testing and hopefully chance to Win !! I decided to participate; I enrolled and started looking out for the team members. Though we could confirm the team 2 weeks before the competition from different location in India.
Test Competition information was on NRG global blogs ; we started going through the blogs to know when/what/how and having read all the details we had still queries and confusion and then we started out first discussion with Matt with set of Queries this lasted with spawn discussion about the reporting tools , Apploader , performance queries,architecture questions etc with different peoples . I am not sure if they really loved to answer all queries posted by us but thanks to Matt , Dan, Ben Smita and other associates who patiently responded all our queries.
Though our initial discussion we were aware about the competition process and we know we had 3 hours to get requirement , test, file bugs , create reports, suggest recommendation etc!!. HMM .. too much to be achieved in 3 hours and considering team of two people we had tough task! After thought we could have atleast team of 3 people should have helped better.
The competition day and time arrived Matt posted a blog just before the competition and we went through the blog , asked few specific requirement question finalized on Test Scope and strategy and started on finding bugs!! One of most confusing part was different communication medium like skype,hangout,twitter, you tube etc..where people were interacting with Matt and most question were repetitive , people even discussing bugs though it was only meant for requirement discussion!!
We decided on QuickEasySurvey.com and CorkBoard.me to be functional tested out of four website and now i think we made good decision. We focused on bugs and had enough number of them but somehow we logged them as one liner in the Team Pulse. I think we have not done good job of reporting (at least on QES , my team mate still did better job on CorkBoard.me). The functional testing report on quality and recommendation were suggested .We were running late , compiled the report and pushed it as fast as possible!! hmm still late by few minutes not sure how many points we have lost!!
The next day was planned for the Performance Testing ; we have finalized on the website and time slot we had lengthy with Dan about the application architecture and areas we want to focus on. Post the discussion we came to know this will not give the right performance metrics through Jmeter as there were lot of client side scripts and Jmeter does not behaves like the browser and had limitation there! Having though of pros and cons of performance tool we decided to go ahead with Apploader!!
There was lengthy process of setting up Apploader , generating scripts , Azure set-up . Though every thing was free but as usual all is not free and we ended up paying 1$ for Azure for International card usage :-)
After all hurdles and support from Ben we could run 25CC test and could gather the application performance as gave recommendations for performance . This all took a week post the competition and we were very tired with all night outs due to different time Zones :-) Many time we thought to leave but we persisted as support from Ben was always there. All thanks to my team member Anindita to taking this to closure.
After the competition and all reports submitted we awaited for results !! Hoping to Win and Learn. The results arrived and we were not as best as others but still we got good feedback on certain areas where we did better than others.
http://www.nrgglobal.com/general/test-competition-results
We would like to congratulate all the teams who have won !
There is lot of takeaways from the competition and we hope to utilize these learning for future!
Test Competition information was on NRG global blogs ; we started going through the blogs to know when/what/how and having read all the details we had still queries and confusion and then we started out first discussion with Matt with set of Queries this lasted with spawn discussion about the reporting tools , Apploader , performance queries,architecture questions etc with different peoples . I am not sure if they really loved to answer all queries posted by us but thanks to Matt , Dan, Ben Smita and other associates who patiently responded all our queries.
Though our initial discussion we were aware about the competition process and we know we had 3 hours to get requirement , test, file bugs , create reports, suggest recommendation etc!!. HMM .. too much to be achieved in 3 hours and considering team of two people we had tough task! After thought we could have atleast team of 3 people should have helped better.
The competition day and time arrived Matt posted a blog just before the competition and we went through the blog , asked few specific requirement question finalized on Test Scope and strategy and started on finding bugs!! One of most confusing part was different communication medium like skype,hangout,twitter, you tube etc..where people were interacting with Matt and most question were repetitive , people even discussing bugs though it was only meant for requirement discussion!!
We decided on QuickEasySurvey.com and CorkBoard.me to be functional tested out of four website and now i think we made good decision. We focused on bugs and had enough number of them but somehow we logged them as one liner in the Team Pulse. I think we have not done good job of reporting (at least on QES , my team mate still did better job on CorkBoard.me). The functional testing report on quality and recommendation were suggested .We were running late , compiled the report and pushed it as fast as possible!! hmm still late by few minutes not sure how many points we have lost!!
The next day was planned for the Performance Testing ; we have finalized on the website and time slot we had lengthy with Dan about the application architecture and areas we want to focus on. Post the discussion we came to know this will not give the right performance metrics through Jmeter as there were lot of client side scripts and Jmeter does not behaves like the browser and had limitation there! Having though of pros and cons of performance tool we decided to go ahead with Apploader!!
There was lengthy process of setting up Apploader , generating scripts , Azure set-up . Though every thing was free but as usual all is not free and we ended up paying 1$ for Azure for International card usage :-)
After all hurdles and support from Ben we could run 25CC test and could gather the application performance as gave recommendations for performance . This all took a week post the competition and we were very tired with all night outs due to different time Zones :-) Many time we thought to leave but we persisted as support from Ben was always there. All thanks to my team member Anindita to taking this to closure.
After the competition and all reports submitted we awaited for results !! Hoping to Win and Learn. The results arrived and we were not as best as others but still we got good feedback on certain areas where we did better than others.
http://www.nrgglobal.com/general/test-competition-results
We would like to congratulate all the teams who have won !
There is lot of takeaways from the competition and we hope to utilize these learning for future!
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