CodeOps Arena: The Ultimate Software Engineering Challenge

Build. Break. Debug. Survive.

CodeOps Arena is an immersive software engineering simulation designed to test participants' programming skills, debugging ability, system thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and decision-making under pressure.

Each team will operate as a software engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining a digital product. Throughout the event, teams will encounter unexpected bug reports, feature requests, production incidents, security alerts, performance issues, and changing customer requirements.

Teams must analyse situations, prioritize tasks, modify their systems, and keep their applications running successfully.

The objective is not simply to write the most code, but to build the most valuable, reliable, and high-performing system under pressure.

Key Challenges

Teams will be required to:

• Fix bugs
• Implement new features
• Improve application performance
• Resolve production failures
• Handle security vulnerabilities
• Pass automated test cases
• Respond to changing requirements
• Make strategic technical decisions under pressure

Each team will start with a basic software product, source code, documentation, development tools, hidden automated tests, and 100 Tech Credits. Teams must strategically use their credits throughout the competition.

The system will be evaluated based on:

• Functional correctness
• Test cases passed
• Code quality
• Performance
• Security
• Feature completion

The event combines software development, debugging, system design, teamwork, and real-time decision-making to simulate the challenges faced by modern software engineering teams.

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Rules & Regulations

1. Teams must work only within the provided challenge environment.
2. Every submission must be made through the designated submission system.
3. Teams may use approved documentation and AI coding assistants if permitted by the organizers.
4. Sharing code or solutions between teams is strictly prohibited.
5. Attempting to attack or compromise the competition infrastructure will result in immediate disqualification.
6. Any form of unfair practice will result in disqualification.
7. The decisions of the organizing committee are final and binding.
8. Each team must consist of 4 members.
9. Team roles may be changed during the competition.
10. All systems will undergo automated and manual evaluation during the final assessment.
11. Teams must strategically manage their available Tech Credits throughout the competition.

Student Coordinators

• Mr. Jeswin Peter — Ph: 8943442392
• Mr. Abhijith S — Ph: 7306 289673
• Ms. Nya Biju — Ph: 6350288780