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An idea on improving the system testing
By eduardische, 13 years ago, translation, In English

Beacuse system testing is already going in chronological order, I came up with an idea to make this process more watchable by making it easier to understand what exactly is tested right now.

There are only 2 changes:

a) Showing above every table in system testing phase not only the percantage of testing completeness (by the way, this info also isn't shown above the table, only in contest summary), but also the time of submit for the last tested submission. This allows quickly understand, when your submit is going to be tested, if you wrote down your time of submit, obviously. Which brings me to

b) Show time of submit below the question mark during system testing as well.

In my point of view, these changes, which are not difficult to implement, will make the process of system testing more informative and exciting.

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And also it would be better to keep the scores until it fails the system tests. This way the ranking during system testing would be more illustrative.
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    I was thinking quite the contrary. Increasing the scores only when solutions have been validated, combined to eduardische's suggestions to display the "local time" for the testing, would make the testing phase look like a fast-replay of the contest, and would be fun to follow!

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      But this leads to an exponential increase of F5 pushes (refresh page)...
      Idea: a "live" scoreboard (something like ioi 2011) So: when the contest is over, for each solution judged the users automatically "jump" higher on the ranks, until system tests are finished: then, the scoreboard will assume the final state. That would be fantastic

      UPD: maybe it would be useful to know that the live scoreboard from ioi2011 is open-source: http://www.ioi2011.or.th/results (look at the bottom)
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    Yeah, it's definitely more pleasant to see your rank increasing step by step (and falling may be once or twice) than watch it falling and falling and falling every minute and growing only once or twice :)

    (Actually I like both ways, and I don't think current system on CF should be changed.)
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