Development
Network Analyzer Tool - Network Testing Services
- 1st Place $500
- 2nd Place $250
- Reliability Bonus $100
- DR Points 225
Contest Overview
Detailed Requirements
Styx is a company that sells software applications to customer. The client is looking to create a new Windows-based application for use by the company's Technical Support personnel to help troubleshoot and identify issues present within the customers' environments that prevent the original system from functioning. The application will need to have the ability to perform the following basic operations:
1) Perform network connectivity tests between machines
2) Provide a profile of the network bandwidth and latency
3) Perform a stress test on the customer's network to identify the point when collision and re-transmissions begin increasing
4) Report on and compare against a predefined set of rules the DCOM configuration settings
5) Ability to collect network metrics over a length of time
6) Provide an easy, intuitive report of the metrics in an existing format (PDF), with an option to e-mail report to Tech Support
7) The application must have an easy-to-use, intuitive user interface and logic to be able to make a determination if the collected data does not match the company's prerequisites for proper operation
8) The application will need to have basic help descriptions to allow new users to learn how to use these tools
Technologies
- C#
- .NET 3.5
Final Submission Guidelines
N/A
Payments
TopCoder will compensate members with first and second place submissions. Initial payment for the winning member will be distributed in two installments. The first payment will be made at the closure of the approval phase. The second payment will be made at the completion of the support period.
Reliability Rating and Bonus
The reliability bonus for each particular project depends on the reliability rating at the moment of registration for that project. A participant with no previous projects is considered to have no reliability rating, and therefore gets no bonus.
Reliability bonus does not apply to Digital Run winnings. Since reliability rating is based on the past 15 projects, it can only have 15 discrete values.
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Support
Standard 30 days support.
Eligibility
You must be a TopCoder member, at least 18 years of age, meeting all of the membership requirements. In addition, you must fit into one of the following categories.
- If you reside in the United States, you must be either:
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- A US Citizen
- A Lawful Permanent Resident of the US
- A temporary resident, asylee, refugee of the U.S., or have a lawfully issued work authorization card permitting unrestricted employment in the U.S.
- If you do not reside in the United States:
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- You must be authorized to perform services as an independent contractor.
(Note: In most cases you will not need to do anything to become authorized)
- You must be authorized to perform services as an independent contractor.
- Registrants:26
- Submissions:3
- Submission %:11.54%
- Passed Screening:3
- Passed %:100.00%
- Average Initial Score:89.42
- Average Final Score:90.67
| Handle | Date Registered |
Date Submitted |
Screening Score |
Initial/Final Score |
Digital Run
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| azukun | 09.03.2012 | 09.06.2012 | 100.00 | 98.20 / 99.45 | 146.25 |
| mapeisheng | 09.03.2012 | 09.06.2012 | 99.05 | 91.63 / 94.13 | 56.25 |
| deccandreamer | 09.04.2012 | 09.06.2012 | 86.30 | 78.42 / 78.42 | 22.50 |
Contest Timelines
- Posted On: 09/02/2012 12:50 PM EDT
- Register By: 09/04/2012 12:53 PM EDT
- Submit By: 09/06/2012 12:57 PM EDT
- Final Submission: 09/10/2012 10:59 PM EDT
