Testathon
— 33 challenges · 1 live · 22 archived · 2,525+ XPLive Challenges
1Upcoming Challenge
Starts 20 Jul, 00:00
1d 01h 28m 04s
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Test Automation Design Patterns: POM, Screenplay, Builder & Fluent Interfaces
Master test automation design patterns — Page Object Model, Screenplay Pattern, Factory, Builder, and fluent interfaces. Learn when each pattern fits and how they reduce maintenance costs.
Starts 21 Jul, 00:00
2d 01h 28m 04s
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Chaos Engineering & Reliability Testing: SLOs, Steady State & Fault Injection
Understand chaos engineering principles — steady state hypothesis, fault injection, Chaos Monkey, SLOs, and how to safely run chaos experiments without causing production incidents.
Starts 22 Jul, 00:00
3d 01h 28m 04s
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AI Eval Frameworks: PromptFoo, DeepEval Metrics & Preventing Eval Contamination
Master AI evaluation frameworks — PromptFoo for prompt red-teaming, DeepEval metrics (Faithfulness, Hallucination, Relevancy), LLM-as-judge patterns, and dataset contamination risks.
Starts 23 Jul, 00:00
4d 01h 28m 04s
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GenAI Multimodal Testing: Evaluating AI Image Generation, CLIP & Toxicity Detection
Learn to test generative AI systems producing images and multimodal outputs — CLIP score, FID metrics, AI image toxicity testing, and evaluating image-text alignment quality.
Starts 24 Jul, 00:00
5d 01h 28m 04s
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SDET Interview Prep: Test Pyramid, Shift-Left, TDD vs BDD & System Design for QA
Ace your SDET and QA Engineer interviews — the test pyramid, shift-left testing, TDD vs BDD trade-offs, test strategy for microservices, and key system design concepts for quality engineers.
Starts 25 Jul, 00:00
6d 01h 28m 04s
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Playwright Locator Strategy — Quiz
Test your knowledge of Playwright's locator API. From getByRole to chaining locators, this quiz covers the patterns that separate maintainable test suites from brittle ones.
Starts 26 Jul, 00:00
7d 01h 28m 04s
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Quiz: Selenium → Playwright Migration
Test your knowledge of the key differences between Selenium and Playwright — waits, locators, async model, and CI setup.
Starts 27 Jul, 00:00
8d 01h 28m 04s
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Quiz: API Testing Fundamentals
Core concepts in REST API testing — status codes, auth patterns, response validation, and test design. Suitable for QA engineers moving into API automation.
Starts 28 Jul, 00:00
9d 01h 28m 04s
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LLM Output Evaluation: DeepEval & RAGAS for AI Testing
Master modern LLM evaluation frameworks. Learn RAGAS metrics, DeepEval assertions, and LLM-as-judge patterns QA engineers use to test AI systems in production.
Starts 29 Jul, 00:00
10d 01h 28m 04s
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Prompt Engineering for QA Engineers: Context, Few-Shot & Chain of Thought
Level up your AI testing skills with prompt engineering fundamentals — system prompts, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought, and context engineering for reliable LLM outputs.
Past Challenges
22Every past challenge is still open. Complete them anytime and earn XP at half the live rate.
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AI Agent Testing: Multi-Step Reasoning, Tool Calls & Trajectory Evaluation
Test your understanding of agentic AI systems — how they differ from standard LLM calls, what makes them risky, and how QA engineers validate tool calls and agent trajectories.
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MCP Testing: Validating Model Context Protocol Servers for AI Agents
Explore testing strategies for MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers — the open standard enabling AI agents to use tools, access resources, and follow prompts from external systems.
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RAG Pipeline Testing: Retrieval Accuracy, Chunking & Hallucination Prevention
Learn to evaluate Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems end-to-end — chunk quality, embedding search, RAGAS metrics, and strategies for preventing retrieval-caused hallucinations.
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AI Hallucination & Bias Detection: Testing LLM Reliability and Fairness
Learn to detect, measure, and mitigate LLM hallucinations and bias. Topics include sycophancy, calibration, demographic parity, and practical evaluation techniques for production AI.
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AI Security Testing: Prompt Injection, Jailbreaking & LLM Red Teaming
Master AI security testing techniques — direct and indirect prompt injection, jailbreak detection, AI red teaming, and the Principle of Least Privilege for AI agents.
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Playwright AI Test Automation: MCP Integration, Route Mocking & Auto-Wait
Advance your Playwright skills for AI-era test automation — MCP browser control, route interception, auto-waiting behavior, and writing resilient selectors that survive UI changes.
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API Contract Testing with Pact: Consumer-Driven Contracts for Microservices
Learn consumer-driven contract testing with Pact. Covers pact files, the Pact Broker, can-i-deploy, and when contract testing beats shared integration environments.
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OWASP API Security Top 10: Testing Authentication, Authorization & Injection
Learn to test the OWASP API Security Top 10 — BOLA, mass assignment, BFLA, rate limiting, and broken authentication. Essential knowledge for security-aware QA engineers.
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GraphQL API Testing: Queries, Mutations, Introspection & N+1 Detection
Master GraphQL-specific testing challenges — schema introspection, mutation validation, N+1 query detection, error format differences from REST, and security considerations.
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k6 Performance Testing: Virtual Users, Thresholds & Load Scenarios
Learn k6 fundamentals for modern performance testing — virtual users, ramp-up strategies, p95 latency, threshold-based pass/fail, and how k6 compares to JMeter.
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Selenium 4: Modern Locators, Chrome DevTools Protocol & WebDriverManager
Test your Selenium 4 knowledge — relative locators, CDP integration, WebDriverManager, avoiding StaleElementReferenceException, and why explicit waits beat implicit waits.
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pytest Advanced: Fixtures, Parametrize, conftest & Parallel Execution
Level up your pytest skills — fixture scopes, parametrize for data-driven tests, conftest.py discovery, pytest-xdist parallel execution, and xfail/skip markers.
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Cypress Testing: Component Testing vs E2E, Intercepts & Playwright Comparison
Compare Cypress component and E2E testing modes, learn network interception with cy.intercept(), and understand where Playwright has the edge over Cypress for modern projects.
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Visual Regression Testing: Playwright Snapshots, Percy & CI/CD Challenges
Learn visual regression testing strategies — what it catches that functional tests miss, how Playwright's toHaveScreenshot works, AI-powered diff tools, and CI rendering pitfalls.
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WCAG 2.1 Accessibility Testing: axe-core, Screen Readers & Keyboard Navigation
Learn to test web accessibility using WCAG 2.1 standards — understand Level A vs AA vs AAA, automate with axe-core in Playwright, and find the defects only manual testing catches.
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GitHub Actions for QA: Quality Gates, Matrix Strategy & Flaky Test Management
Build robust CI/CD quality gates with GitHub Actions — jobs vs steps, reusable workflows, matrix strategy for cross-browser testing, and strategies for taming flaky tests.
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Software Testing Fundamentals: 7 Principles, STLC & Verification vs Validation
Strengthen your testing foundation — the 7 ISTQB principles of testing, verification vs validation, defect clustering, pesticide paradox, and the Software Testing Life Cycle.
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Exploratory Testing: Session-Based Techniques, Charters & SFDPOT Heuristic
Master exploratory testing — how it differs from scripted testing, session-based test management, SFDPOT and other heuristics, and what defects only exploratory testing finds.
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BDD with Gherkin & Cucumber: Scenarios, Three Amigos & Writing Living Documentation
Master Behavior-Driven Development — Gherkin syntax, the three-amigos practice, Scenario Outlines for data-driven BDD, and the most common anti-patterns that make scenarios brittle.
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Appium Mobile Test Automation: iOS, Android & Cross-Platform Strategies
Test your Appium knowledge — desired capabilities, locator strategies, real device vs emulator trade-offs, and the Appium 2.0 driver architecture for iOS and Android automation.
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JMeter Performance Testing: Thread Groups, Ramp-Up, Distributed Load & Listeners
Master Apache JMeter — Thread Groups, Constant Timers, ramp-up configuration, distributed test execution, and best practices for using JMeter in CI/CD pipelines.
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Data Quality & ETL Testing: Data Contracts, Great Expectations & Pipeline Validation
Learn to test data pipelines end-to-end — ETL stage validation, data contracts, Great Expectations for automated quality assertions, uniqueness, completeness, and referential integrity.
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