2019 Competition FAQ

For all those Participants who care about good preparation for the Competition we have prepared a FAQ section based on the questions we received from you.

 

Question 1:
Does anything stand in the way of using the following tools during the Competition:

  • Slack
  • Google Drive
  • Trello
  • Online Postman documentation
  • Video conference tool between team members, e.g. BlueJeans, another messenger
  • Greenshot?

Answers:

  1. Any online tools may not work due to the lack of guaranteed Internet network.
  2. Desktop tools are allowed as long as they do not serve to communicate outside the team, decompile and attack participants’ infrastructure.
  3. A team Captain must be connected to the LAN. That means he will not be in the same network as the rest of his/her team.
  4. We suggest to have Postman documentation offline.

 
Question 2: 
TestingCup Rules and Regulations point § 5 p. 16 says:

Documents can be created in Polish or English. Documents in other languages shall not be subject to evaluation.

Does it mean that reporting bugs and preparing such documents like a test plan or test report can be in Polish? Or is it only related to the documents?

Answer: Yes, reporting bugs and creating required documents can be in Polish.

Question 3: 
TestingCup Rules and Regulations point § 5 p. 21 says:

21. The following is prohibited during a test round:
21.1. Using debuggers, decompilers and messengers (other than provided by the Organiser), […]

Can our team use Google Docs (or similar) to report bugs so that the Captain can see reported bugs and see if team members do not duplicate them?

Answer: Any online tools may not work due to the lack of guaranteed Internet network.

Question 4: 
TestingCup Rules and Regulations point § 5 p. 21 says:

21. The following is prohibited during a test round:
[…]
21.3. Using devices other than specified above (wired or wireless), including USB drives (except for those provided by the Organiser).

Can I use a USB LAN adapter (my friend has no RJ-45 input)?
Can I use a USB HUB (my friend has few USB inputs and he needs to use the HUB to connect a mouse, keyboard, flash drive and the LAN adapter)?

Answer: Both USB LAN and USB HUB are allowed.

 

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