Code Review
If you like applying Code Review, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Design an Upstream Contribution to a CNCF Service-Mesh Project
Using the internal fork dossier (case-file) for the business context, the prior rejection feedback, and the targeted roadmap area, design an upstream contribution that a careful…
- Oss Contribution
- Rfc Design
- Pr Etiquette
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Design an Empirical Study of Pull Request Review Throughput
Using the provided pull request dataset and the stakeholder brief, design and run an empirical software-engineering study on review throughput. State three falsifiable hypothese…
- Empirical Software Engineering
- Software Analytics
- Statistical Analysis
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Refactor a Big-Ball-of-Mud Java Servlet Application
Week 1: install JUnit 5 + Testcontainers harness, write characterization tests for the 2 target workflows (PolicyIssue + ClaimSubmit) reaching at least 80 percent branch coverag…
- Refactoring
- Characterization Testing
- Legacy Systems
Software Evolution and Maintenance - CodeIntermediateNew
Specification-First Refactor of a Payments Module
Read the module, the last 12 months of incidents touching it, and the existing tests. Write a 6-page specification using a precondition / postcondition / invariant format per pu…
- Specifications
- Refactoring
- Characterization Testing
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Why Ewance
- CodeIntermediateNew
Debug a Race Condition in a Real-Time Collaboration Service
Build a deterministic load-test harness (k6 or Playwright) that reproduces the corruption within 3 attempts on a clean local stack. Capture traces with OpenTelemetry to localize…
- Debugging
- Concurrency
- Load Testing
Software Construction
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