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Challenge Overview

Project Overview

This project, the CSFV Community Gaming website project will provide the web site infrastructure and integration of the games. This will be a web site that is available on the Internet, and also will be delivered in a form where the server and the games can be installed and used behind a firewall.

This is  first chalelnge in a series of CSFV challenges to create test scenarios for all areas in CSFV websites, we are starting with CSFV Forums in this challenge. Note the following :

  • We don't have up to date Requirement Specification document, we have recently changed the forums UX, so we only have UI Prototype and a live staging server you can playaround and understand functionality.
  • The test scenarios are targeting bug hunters, the purpose is to force bug hunters to follow a well documented scenarios when testing the website GUI, functionality, performance .. etc

The CSFV Forums will need to have the ability to perform the following basic operations:

  • Viewing forum threads listing page
  • Viewing Thread deails page
  • Posting new thread topic
  • Replying to existing thread post
  • Upvote/Downvote a thread post
  • Attach/Unattach files from forums
  • Add new category (admin feature)
  • Update existing category (admin feature)
  • Pin a thread (admin feature)
  • Lock a thread (admin feature)
  • View My Watches and perform all operations available in the page
  • View My Posts and perform all operations available in the page
  • Stats displayed properly acorss all forums area
  • Receive notifications about new watches
  • Receive emails notifications about new watches

    (Note that you need to look into UI prototype pages and play around the live staging, and ask questions in order to fully understand all areas in the CSFV forums)

This competition will define the test scenarios for the CSFV Forums.

Tips for success:

  •  Asking questions early and getting feedback is very important for the success of this competition.
  • Raise questions if you feel anything is confusing, or if you have any questions on the provided documentation (Copilot and PM will be available to answer questions).

Contest Objective

The goal of this competition is to develop a quality assurance plan and test scenarios to ensure that the requirements are met and the application works correctly. The plan and scenarios should test the application requirements for both positive and negative cases.

You must prepare the plan and scenarios document by considering all pages/screens present in the staging website.

Test Type Descriptions

Only the following types of tests are in scope for the current contest. So please prepare the test scenarios document for the current application by considering the following tests.

  • Functional Test
  • Performance Test
  • Integration Test
  • GUI Test

Provided Resources

Live Staging website

The staging website http://www.verigames.org/forums

  • You will be prompted with a username/password dialog, the credentials will be posted in challenge forums
  • You can register new users
  • Request in forums to get admin access to forums, it is better to have multiple accounts to test regular vs. admin features.
  • You are allowed to post and delete content in the website, it is staging and used mainly for testing.

Documentation Provided

The following documentation will be available in the contest forum:

  • UI Prototype


Final Submission Guidelines

Submission Deliverables

Document Name Document Type                         Must be compatible with
Test Scenarios Document Word Document Microsoft Word
QA Plan Document Spread Sheet Microsoft Excel
     

 

Final Submission

 

  • Your final submission must contain a single .zip file with all the 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.

ELIGIBLE EVENTS:

2014 TopCoder(R) Open

REVIEW STYLE:

Final Review:

Community Review Board

Approval:

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