The UK and Ireland Testing Board (UKITB) in collaboration with FindWhatsWrong (FWW) would like to pass on our congratulations to Catherine Bourne, who is the the winner of the second Practical Testing Challenge bug hunt. 

Catherine scored a Defect Detection Percentage (DDP) of 87.5% in what proved to be a tricky challenge finding defects in what appears to be a simple login process on the FindWhatsWrong Practical Testing Platform. 

Although the challenge appeared to be a simple scenario, the average DDP was 47% across all the participants - so maybe not as straightforward as it appeared, making Catherine's performance even more creditworthy! 

Catherine took the £50 Amazon Voucher prize and had this to say

"A lovely surprise to win the challenge! I look forward to taking part in future challenges and would highly recommend others to give it a go - a great opportunity to put into practise testing skills in a different environment"

UKITB are planning to run more challenges so if you think you have what it takes to beat Catherine, our 'reigning champion' watch our social media for details of the next event! 

We would like to pass on our thanks to all that took part – we were delighted with the feedback. It proved to be an enjoyable experience for the participants. Watch out for the announcement and register for the next challenge!

If you would like to know when the next Practical Testing Challenge will be or just keep up to date with what is going on with the UKITB, you can do so by following UKITB on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or subscribe to our mailing list below:

UKITB has partnered and is collaborating with ‘FindWhatsWrong’ to help bring a second new, practical software testing challenge to the market.

UKITB has been driving software testing forward in the UK and Ireland for over 15 years. UKITB

• Operates as the ISTQB Member Board for the UK and Ireland. A major contributor of Subject Matter Experts for ISTQB Working Groups, with UKITB authored exams used globally.
• Is the the UK and Ireland TMMi (Test Maturity Model integration) chapter with a number of its members having prominent roles in that organisation
• Supports a wide range of Conferences in Development & Testing and has hosted two major ISTQB General Assembly Conferences in London and Dublin.

This latest initiative has seen Members of our Technical Advisory Group (TAG) assist in developing and piloting an innovative practical software testing platform aimed at helping individuals and organisations evaluate and develop their software testing skills.

The 2nd running of the Practicle Testing Challenge using the updated ‘Software Testing Simulator’ developed by FindWhatsWrong has already been introduced to support the “UK Institute For Apprenticeships and Technical Education” Software Tester Level 4 Apprenticeship scheme.

The UKITB Practice Testing Challenge

UKITB is kicking off the 2nd ‘hands-on’ challenge for testers to find defects in a very simple scenario. So can you find the defects in an everyday IT feature? There’s a winners prize of a bottle of champagne for whoever gets the best DDP ‘Defect Detection Percentage’ in this 1-hour challenge.

We’re restricting this to the first 100 contestants in selected time slots. It sounds simple, but is it? You need to find the defects and avoid selecting things that aren’t. And to make it interesting, we are using a unique feature of the platform that enables the applications to behave in a myriad of different ways for the same User Stories and Acceptance Criteria – so collaborating with a fellow contestant might not help!

Book your slot and take the challenge

This is the second ‘Challenge’ that the UKITB are running and if you miss out on this one, there will be more to come in the future.

Watch out for more details and challenges to come by following UKITB on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or subscribe to our mailing list below:

The UK and Ireland Testing Board (UKITB) in collaboration with FindWhatsWrong (FWW) would like to pass on our congratulations to Gomathi Viswanathan, who is the the winner of the first Practical Testing Challenge. 

Gomathi scored a Defect Detection Percentage (DDP) of 89% in what proved to be a tricky challenge finding defects in what appears to be a simple login process on the FindWhatsWrong Practical Testing Platform. 

Gomathi completed a Retrospective following the challenge and commented:

“This is my first experience to participate in a testing challenge. I am glad that I took part and enjoyed it. It was more of exploratory testing and experience based testing after going through and understanding the document.”

Other feedback from participants of the Practical Testing Challenge included:

“Well organised, had no worries leading up to the challenge… kept informed and knew what to expect in regard to getting access to the platform”

“The exercise was an enjoyable experience and I liked the structure of the tooling.”

“Very intuitive as promised!”

“Did you enjoy the experience? Yes! Thank you… Looking forward to the next one.”

We would like to pass on our thanks to all that took part – we were delighted with the feedback. It proved to be an enjoyable experience for the participants, many of whom are already looking forward to the next one, which we will be announcing in June. Watch out for the announcement and register for the next challenge!

If you would like to know when the next Practical Testing Challenge will be or just keep up to date with what is going on with the UKITB, you can do so by following UKITB on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or subscribe to our mailing list below:

UKITB has partnered and is collaborating with ‘FindWhatsWrong’ to help bring a brand new, practical software testing platform to the market.

UKITB has been driving software testing forward in the UK and Ireland for over 15 years. UKITB

• Operates as the ISTQB Member Board for the UK and Ireland. A major contributor of Subject Matter Experts for ISTQB Working Groups, with UKITB authored exams used globally.
• Is the the UK and Ireland TMMi (Test Maturity Model integration) chapter with a number of its members having prominent roles in that organisation
• Supports a wide range of Conferences in Development & Testing and has hosted two major ISTQB General Assembly Conferences in London and Dublin.

This latest initiative has seen Members of our Technical Advisory Group (TAG) assist in developing and piloting an innovative practical software testing platform aimed at helping individuals and organisations evaluate and develop their software testing skills.

The ‘Software Testing Simulator’ developed by FindWhatsWrong has already been introduced to support the "UK Institute For Apprenticeships and Technical Education" Software Tester Level 4 Apprenticeship scheme and now the UKITB is looking to support its wider use in the market.

The Practical Test Challenge

UKITB is kicking off with a ‘hands-on’ challenge for testers to find defects in a very simple scenario. So can you find the defects in an everyday ‘Login’ feature? There’s a prize of a bottle of champagne for whoever gets the best DDP ‘Defect Detection Percentage’ in this 1-hour challenge.

We’re restricting this to the first 100 contestants in selected timeslots. It sounds simple, but is it? You need to find the defects and avoid selecting things that aren’t. And to make it interesting, we are using a unique feature of the platform that enables the applications to behave in a myriad of different ways for the same User Stories and Acceptance Criteria - so collaborating with a fellow contestant might not help!

Book your slot and take the challenge

This is just the first 'Challenge'. There is much more to the platform than this simple challenge – the ‘Software Testing Simulator’ can be configured to simulate real-life iterative development scenarios, evaluate test analysis and design thinking, and provide a range of metrics on the performance of anyone using it.

Watch out for more details and challenges to come by following UKITB on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or subscribe to our mailing list below: