AutomATAhon - Global Testing Retreat 2024

#AutomATAhon2024: Hackathon for testers

Are you ready to take on the toughest test automation challenge?

#ATAGTR2024 is continuing the #AutomATAhon tradition that was started for the first time in 2017. This is the 5th edition of the competition. Meant for testing community to participate in an automation challenge (Hackathon) In-fact the competition is meant not only for the testers but all the testing organizations too. It is a team event, if you are into automation and you are ready to show case your and your organization’s automation capability this is the competition to be a part of.

Remember there would be live application scenarios and live automation challenge up for contest. Jury members would be there to evaluate.

It will be time boxed event.

#AutomATAhon Details

This time there would be 2 rounds for AutomATAhon competition.

Round 1
Date: 23rd November 2024
Timings: 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm (IST)
This round will be online, team will get challenge and top 5 teams will qualify for Round 2

Round 2
Date: 8th December 2024
Timings: During the ATAGTR2024 conference
This round will be conducted during conference hours in the form of a live Quiz. Pattern would be similar to MonthEndQuizATAhons being conducted..

Registration of team starts from 16 September 2024, Please register below

What would you get?

All the teams who register for the event will be showcased on the AutomATAhon2024 page on the website and will garner 4000 points for their respective organization on Leaderboard.
Top 5 teams (both the team members) will get a free entry to conference (ATAGTR2024)
All the team members will be given a participation certificate
Winning Team of the competition will be rewarded with INR 31,000 (Thirty One Thousand Indian Rupees) Cheque or Amazon Gift Voucher. Winning team members will also receive an individual winner certificate, Winning Team will receive a trophy on 8th December during #ATAGTR2024 award cermony.
1st Runner’s up Team will be rewarded with INR 11,000 (Eleven Thousand Indian Rupees) or Amazon Gift Voucher, Individual Certificates and a Team Trophy for 1st Runner up.
2nd Runner’s up Team in the competition will be rewarded with INR 5,000 (Five Thousand Indian Rupees) or Amazon Gift Voucher , Individual Certificate and a Team Trophy.
3rd Runner’s up Team in the competition will be rewarded with INR 2,000 (Two Thousand Indian Rupees) or Amazon Gift Voucher, Individual Certificate and a Team Trophy.
4th Runner’s up Team in the competition will be rewarded with INR 1,000 (Five Thousand Indian Rupees) or Amazon Gift Voucher, Individual Certificate and a Team Trophy.
Winning team, 1st Runner Up Team, 2nd Runner Team, 3rd Runner Team and 4th Runner Team will garner 15000, 10000, 5000, 3000 and 1000 points on leaderboard respectively for their organizations.
#ATAGTR2024 Leaderboard :https://gtr.agiletestingalliance.org/leaderboard/

Rules – #AutomATAhon24

It is a time boxed event – which means a fixed duration will be provided to all the participants to solve the challenge
You can use any open source automation tool(s) which can be setup on Jury’s machine
Round 1 would be held over Zoom/MS Teams (Virtual) and Round 2 will be conducted live during Conference location. Final Rankings will be based on 80% weightage from Round 1 and 20% weightage from Round 2.
It is a team event. Maximum members in a team allowed are two (2)
All the team members have to be physically present in single location such that the team members are visible from a chosen video stream. Both the team members will be allocated a virtual room, they must be present in that virtual room. They can be physically present in different locations. Both the team members have to keep their camera’s on in the virtual room. Jury members can ask them to share their screens on demand.
There is no cap on the number of teams/registrations from a particular organization
Problem statement will be provided to all the teams at the start of the event along with hook to a GIT repository. Participants have to automate the problem statement and hook with a CI system like Jenkins.
Use case on API Testing, Mobile, UI and Functional Testing on multiple browsers, Reporting and other use cases may be there.
All team members will have to solve the challenge on their own laptops keeping one video camera on showing the entire team.
Team has to move the code into the GIT repo as per the scheduled time. Participants have to make AutomATAhon code repo as their collaborator so that Jury can take a look at the codebase if the need be.
Team need to record the automation solution in action using phone or any other software (like zoom / meetings software etc) and upload on google drive with in the challenge duration
Participants also need to create an Automation Test Strategy during the challenge duration.
Participants need to have a good internet bandwidth during the competition.
Jury can ask any individual member to share their laptop screen
One laptop per team member is allowed and each team member should sign in from the same laptop that is used for coding/automation to the Zoom/MS Teams meeting
The competition will be hosted using Microsoft Teams or Zoom, you need to ensure that you have access to Microsoft Teams / Zoom from your laptop and you need to turn on 1 video camera showing the entire team during the entire duration of the event. You should have stable internet connection during the competition.
- Evaluation will be based on following points.
- Quality and stability of automation
- Ability to modify tests (changes, addition and deletion of test scenarios)
- Speed at which changes can be incorporated
- Speed of execution
- Maintenance effort required for automation
- Integration smoothness with CI tool
- Integration with other shift left / continuous testing tools
- Speed of solving the challenge (time stamp of the final code push in the repository) will be used as a tie breaker in case the marks are equal
Jury will select the top 5 entries. Live demo of the solution will have to presented by all the selected the top entries.
Based on this demo Top 3-4 team will be requested to present their solution live on a laptop/machine given by ATAGTR2024 team during ATAGTR2024 in Pune. Final results will be decided on this live demo and live presentation. Every team will be given 15 minutes for a demo and presentation. Setup on an external laptop has to be done during the event.
The GIT code submitted during the live event can only be used for the setup on independent machines
Jury’s decision would be final.