Overview

Application Overview
Hyperion Technology, Inc. recognizes that recovery of overpaid Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits by State Workforce Agencies (SWA) is critical to the solvency and integrity of the UI Trust Fund. Most collection systems currently used by states have been put together over many years and are commonly a collection of individual systems developed for separate recovery business functions. Paper driven and labor intensive, these patchwork systems, while operable, have significant limitations, including increased maintenance costs and the imposition of significant redundancies.

The primary focus of Recover will be the creation of a fast path process of collection activities related to benefit overpayments created within a state's mainframe system. The system will also provide for the tracking and management of those cases that do not meet fast path criteria.

The Recover application is a Microsoft .NET web application that leverages the latest technologies to provide the most powerful, flexible, and extensible system available.

Competition Overview
Automated Testing is an important part of any application. For this purpose, many test scripts were written to test the Recover project's web site. These test scripts were written against an HTML only prototype of the application. Now that the application has been built, these scripts must be revised to work with the live version. The scripts were written in Seapine's QA Wizard Pro. You can download a license at their website (QA Wizard).

Technologies

Application Technologies

• ASP.NET 2.0
• ASP.NET AJAX

Testing Technologies

• QA Wizard Pro

** Any additional testing frameworks or jars must be approved before being used.

Documentation

This project is expected to be very fast, and require a minimum of overhead and configuration. All the developer is strictly required to have is an installed QA Wizard Pro instance running on a trial license. Provided to the user will be:

• A full set of architecture and specification documentation for reference
• URL and logins to the actual website running in the TopCoder environment
• A copy of the original prototype for reference
• The full set of existing QA Wizard Scripts to be converted, including the configured Application Registry
• A human-readable step by step walkthrough of each of those scripts in the form of excel files.
• Detailed list of test scenarios

Submission Deliverables

The competitors will submit the complete list of QA Wizard Pro scripts fully compatible with the given web site. These scripts must be bundled in any appropriate QA Wizard projects for ease of use. The winner will be chosen based on accuracy of the conversion and organization of the deliverables into meaningful projects. Competitors may choose to make teams and divide the individual sections of work between team members, or work on the entire project as one.

 For the purposes of limiting scope, ONLY those scripts marked as Validation scripts are required for conversion. Test cases associated with functional scripts are now out of the scope of this competition. Please consult the forums for further details.

Winning Test Solution
Total Payment - $500

Second Place Test Solution
Total Payment - $250

Eligibility
You must be a TopCoder member, at least 18 years of age, meeting all of the membership requirements. In addition, you must fit into one of the following categories.

If you reside in the United States, you must be either:

• A US Citizen
• A Lawful Permanent Resident of the US
• A temporary resident, asylee, refugee of the U.S., or have a lawfully issued work authorization card permitting unrestricted employment in the U.S.

If you do not reside in the United States:

• You must be authorized to perform services as an independent contractor. (Note: In most cases you will not need to do anything to become authorized)

Your ability to participate in this competition is contingent on the agreement to the Testing Terms of Work and signing of a Non Disclosure Agreement. Once you have registered this information will be emailed to you and should be returned within 24 hours. If you have previously completed these documents, no further action is needed.

Timeline
All submissions are required to be submitted by the end of Competition Phase. The end of each phase is at 5:00 PM EDT.

Phase	Start	End	Days
Registration Phase	02.01.2008	02.03.2008	2
Test Submission	02.01.2008	02.04.2008	3
Screening / Review	02.04.2008	02.07.2008	3
Winner Selection		02.08.2008	1

Registration
Members interested in registering for this competition should email to TestingSubmissions@topcoder.com. In the email, include the following information:

• Handle
• First & Last Name
• Name of Testing Competition in which you would like to participate

TopCoder staff will respond as to whether you are registered or not.

Forum Link
http://forums.topcoder.com/?module=Category

Submission
Once you have test code you are ready to submit, you can do so by emailing your source code to TestingSubmissions@topcoder.com by the submission deadline. Once a submission is received, it will be screened. All code that passes screening will be made available to the Assembly Competition teams.