Bug Hunter Challenge

Halloween Edition

You like to play breakout games, right? But are you brave enough to join this spooky challenge and end the hocus pocus?

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Since Halloween, some hocus pocus is going... If you manage to solve this trick and help our little ghost to find its doll and are cracking a new high score, you will have the chance to win a gift card at Amazon worth 100€. Make this your sweetest Halloween ever!

The challenge:

  • Developers have created a breakout game but they are experiencing weird behaviors now, as if the gaming application has been charmed.
  • This means that several bugs have found their way into the code and it is now your job to use your exploratory skills to test this web based game on the shown requirements and find as many bugs as you can within 5 minutes.
  • The clock will count down and be visible during the exercise. 

Rules:

  • You can move from the requirements list and the testing environment (breakout game) as often as you like to.
  • Latest after your times is up, you will have to document within a checkbox list what bugs you have found.
  • For each correct answer, you will be rewarded with 5-15 points.
  • For each false answer, your total score will be deducted with 5-15 points.
  • Also, the amount of time left after completing the exercise will determine your place on the leaderboard in case you have the same high score as somebody else. The faster you are, the better chance of winning

To get you started right away, and give you some hints as well on where and how to start, some instructions will be shown after you have signed up. The requirements will be visible during the exercise.

We recommend to join the challenge on your desktop / notebook instead of participating with your mobile phone.

Help us to end this hocus pocus and guide the ghost to its doll!

... Happy bug hunting :)

The challenge is closed.

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Terms and conditions 👻

Period and price
  • Time period for the competition is 28th of October - 10th of of November 2024 (eod)
  • The price is a gift card from Amazon worth 100€
Determining the winner
  • The person, who scored the most points, will be the winner of this bug hunter game. Besides scoring the points, the amount of time left after completing the exercise will determine your place on the leaderboard in case you have the same high score as somebody else. The more time left, the better chance of winning.
  • The winner will be contacted shortly after the deadline of the competition to verify the e-mail address so that the price can be shared. If the winner does not reply to the e-mail, he/she signed up with, within 48 hours, the price will be handed over to the second winner.
Fair competition and participation
  • We want to provide a fair competition. Therefore, every participant is only allowed to play once and multiple playthroughs will lead to elimination from the competition.
  • Everyone is allowed to join this challenge. However and as this challenge wants to engage company external participants, employees of System Verification will be excluded from winning.
  • Participating in our competitions is free of charge. The winner is responsible for any profit tax. The winnings are not exchangeable for money and the right to collect the winnings is personal and cannot be transferred to anyone else.
Other
  • All rights, including intellectual property rights (eg copyright) to your competition entry that you submit to the competition belong to System Verification. We are free to use this in any context and freely transfer, lease and change the same.
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Do you have questions about this competition? Reach out to Celina Strietzel