Software-Testing Contests: Observations and Lessons Learned

Xingya Wang, Weisong Sun, Linghuan Hu, Yuan Zhao, W. Eric Wong, Zhenyu Chen

Abstract: While a significant amount of resources can be spent on software testing, the software produced may still suffer from low quality. The authors describe their experience of hosting industrysponsored software-testing contests to help undergraduate and graduate students, as well as practitioners, improve their testing skills.