{"id":374,"date":"2022-05-19T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T10:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiansoftwaretestingawards.com\/?page_id=374"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T10:39:52","slug":"judges-entry-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asiansoftwaretestingawards.com\/judges-entry-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge&#8217;s Entry Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"374\" class=\"elementor elementor-374\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-348675f elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"348675f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fde2070\" data-id=\"fde2070\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be46161 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"be46161\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInRight&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Entry Guide<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b0ffbd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5b0ffbd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-58d9f83\" data-id=\"58d9f83\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-13b9523 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"13b9523\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-c9b230c\" data-id=\"c9b230c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3bc5df2 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3bc5df2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Judges' Feedback<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1fc5549 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1fc5549\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The following are comments gathered from previous Judging Panels after they had reviewed all entries. It may help you in deciding on what information to include in your entries.<\/p><p>As a whole the entries did not take into account criteria as much as the Judging Panel would have liked. Additionally, the entrants should remember that they are being judged by a panel of industry peers and so would do well to pitch the entry to the target audience. A few entries were considered \u201coverly simplistic.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-c24998f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c24998f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-8885f28\" data-id=\"8885f28\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7dda990 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7dda990\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Strong Entries:\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1736558 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1736558\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>\u00a0<\/h2><ul><li>Emphasised the business importance and criticality of the project, and clearly identified what was innovative about the approach being adopted.<\/li><li>Focused on security testing and gave detail on tool evaluation, plus approach to overcoming challenges. Good integration in to delivery and security testing principles.<\/li><li>Clear project goals coupled with quantified outcomes\/successes; adaptability to mitigate unexpected challenges\/risks and the utilisation of a wide variety of testing approaches and techniques that aligned with the complexity of their environments.<\/li><li>Very explicit in drawing out the use of Agile principles and how they were deployed and adapted throughout the project.\u00a0 It is also valuable to have concrete examples of processes that worked well, and of lessons learned from mistakes.<\/li><li>Shown the biggest number of treats\/characteristics one would expect from someone with good people management and communication skills:\u00a0 Mentorship (not only for people within his company), Coaching, being a role model, approachable and supportive, valued-respected-listened by people, dedicated to team well-being, focus on skilling people up.<\/li><li>Evidence of overcoming challenges was clear, they have also described how they were committed to best practices and their selection of methodology to support their automation objectives along with evidences which made their application standing out from the rest.<\/li><li>Cleary researched and implemented best tech to test ALL the system, NOT just the software based backend systems.<\/li><li>Very clear evidence of the project methodology and justification of tech choices. Very clearly detailed description of understanding the Stakeholders needs, the importance of the project and the overall Goals. In addition employed a combination of technology to solve some very difficult problems. Demonstrated some very innovative use of tech to deliver a complete testing solution.<\/li><li>Explained well the approach to selecting tools, and the reasons for selecting them.\u00a0The selection of the tools themselves represent best practice test approaches, and the results speak for themselves.\u00a0 In addition, the approach to synthetic data creation was good. The testing has clearly been challenging, and some of the unique solutions implemented, along with the clear narrative on the reason for the choice, are very exciting.<\/li><li>Give context to metrics to fully justify their inclusion.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-53a0a34\" data-id=\"53a0a34\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38e4596 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"38e4596\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInRight&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:150}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/asiansoftwaretestingawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Asian-software-coding-image-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1866\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-3d18bdb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3d18bdb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-6843784\" data-id=\"6843784\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-359c999 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"359c999\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:200}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/asiansoftwaretestingawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Asian-software-coding-image2-01-01-1024x720.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1869\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiansoftwaretestingawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Asian-software-coding-image2-01-01-1024x720.png 1024w, https:\/\/asiansoftwaretestingawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Asian-software-coding-image2-01-01-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/asiansoftwaretestingawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Asian-software-coding-image2-01-01-768x540.png 768w, https:\/\/asiansoftwaretestingawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Asian-software-coding-image2-01-01-1536x1081.png 1536w, https:\/\/asiansoftwaretestingawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Asian-software-coding-image2-01-01-2048x1441.png 2048w, https:\/\/asiansoftwaretestingawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Asian-software-coding-image2-01-01-600x422.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-ba3892b\" data-id=\"ba3892b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0cd7c4a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0cd7c4a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Weak Entries:\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-96cb33f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"96cb33f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>\u00a0<\/h2><ul><li>Did not describe challenges very well, talking about business, project, or architectural challenges \u2013 rather than challenges in their automation journey. Not sufficient details around how they were testing to take a view on the quality of the test scripts.\u00a0Unable to justify their choices in selecting an implementation approach.<\/li><li>Did not cover all the criteria\u2019s defined, which made it as slightly weaker applications.<\/li><li>Lacked details around the approach to testing. 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