The #MobileDebugging Writing Contest: Round 2 Results Announced!

Hey Hackers, Devs, and Builders! Here are the results of the #MobileDebugging Writing Contest, Round 2! For those reading about it for the first time - No worries! You still have a chance to win thousands of $$$. Sentry and HackerNoon have brought you a super-fun writing contest on mobile app debugging.

How to enter the contest? It’s as easy as A. B. C. Simply submit a story related to mobile app testing and debugging!

#MobileDebugging: Some ideas to help you get started

1. Do you remember those support tickets from customers writing in to report their application crashing or freezing?
2. Was it right after a new release?
3. Were you notified by a monitoring tool?
4. Did a problem arise from a 3rd party library?
5. Did a problem occur when receiving an unexpected HTTP response? ​

The Mobile Debugging Writing Contest: Round 2 Nominations 🔥

As usual, we’ve picked our winners by taking the top ten story submissions that generated the most traffic. HackerNoon’s editorial team then voted for the top three winners.

Here are the Top 10 nominees:

1. The Case of the Missing Money: How I Used Detective Skills to Track Down a Bug in an App 🔍 by @mikeynyzw
2. You Can Build a Mobile App in Python but Packaging It Risks a Storm of Bugs by @oliveremeka
3. Bugged: A Thrilling Tale of Tech Troubles and Triumph by @ayothedoc
4. How to Write Unit Tests in Xcode for iOS Projects: A Quick Guide  by @maxkalik
5. iPhone: this is an emergency by @aferreira
6. Easy Smart Contract Debugging with Truffle's Console.log by @MichaelB
7. 25 Common iOS 16 Issues by @viralruchir
8. Mobile App Debugging Explained on 3 Levels of Difficulty by @oliveremeka
9. Debugging Tips Capsule For Beginners by @induction
10. Mobile App Debugging in 2023: Top 3 Tools  by @strateh76

#MobileDebugging: Round 2 Winners 🔥🔥🔥

The story that got the most views and highest number of votes is:

As an Android developer working on a popular remittance app supporting over 100 thousand users, it is my job to ensure the app runs smoothly and all reported issues are resolved promptly. I was used to getting the occasional support ticket from users reporting issues with the app. But one day, I received a deluge of tickets from people who were failing to send money to a particular region through the app. This was especially concerning because it was close to the holiday season, a time when many people rely on our app to send money to their loved ones.

Congratulations on winning the first place and most-read story award@mikeynyzw! You have won $600!

The second place is won by:

I suppose we all know how frustrating it can be to try and practice what you just learned from a tutorial only to be greeted with an error that was never experienced or talked about in the tutorial material.

Many would-be developers give up at this stage, and it’s not unusual for some to leave a mark of a smashed PC or device from the rage, I tell you 😡.

Congratulations, @oliveremeka! You have won $300.

In the third place, we have:

It was a hot summer day, and I was working on the latest update for my mobile app. Everything seemed to be going smoothly until I stumbled upon a strange bug. No matter how many times I tried to fix it, the bug just wouldn't go away.

Yay! @ayothedoc has won $100!

Congratulations again to all the winners! We will contact you all shortly. Till then, keep calm and keep on submitting #mobiledebugging stories! Visit contests.hackernoon.com to learn more about currently running contests.