Battle of the E-Tailers: The Results

We're excited to announce the results of our latest software testing competition - The Battle of the E-Tailers - just in time for the holiday season. Over the course of a week, nearly 600 testers from 20+ countries reported bugs in Amazon.com, Walmart.com and Target.com. In addition to the bug-hunting, testers also ranked each e-tailer based on usability, product search, price comparison and other feature sets - with nearly $4,000 in prize money on the line.

In all, testers found a combined total of 505 bugs, with 9% of those classified as "showstoppers" (i.e. bugs in need of immediate attention). Here are a few more top-line findings:

  • Target.com had the most reported bugs (261), followed by Walmart.com (150) and Amazon (94).
  • Amazon ranked highest in most categories (pricing, ease of use, product reviews), while Walmart ranked highest in product search tools and also earned good marks for pricing.
  • Target.com ranked lowest in all five categories and accounted for 261 bugs, more than half of all bugs reported in the competition.
  • 67% did not choose “lowest prices” when asked to identify their most important category, as only 1 in 3 chose lowest prices as their primary decision making criteria.
  • Nearly 75% of all survey respondents said they trust Amazon most for their holiday shopping

For a complete run-down on the results, be sure to download our detailed report.

Here are the Bug Battle winners from our global community, separated by category:

The Winners:

Award Name Country Prize
Overall
Top Tester
Judges' Choice Award
Brad Sellick
Tuyen Tran
Canada
Vietnam
$500
$250

Gaurang Joshi
Ranchhod Prajapati
Tasnim Ferdous
Vivek Gar
Anne Bacay
India
India
Canada
India
USA
$400
$300
$200
$100
$50

Brad Sellick
Gizem Sahin
Kunal Sehgal
Jaya Dinu
Vijaygauri Gumaste
Canada
Turkey
India
USA
Singapore
$400
$300
$200
$100
$50
Andrei Urasov
Atul Angra
Eureka Lopes
Gina Stevenson
Leonardo Steffen
Milan Patel
Mohammad Afroz
Nehal Roy
Pradeep Chauhan
Pradeep Soundararajan
Pratibha Rao
Santhosh Tuppad
Sofia Woloschin
Sri Ranjan Gobboor
Vanita Hasija
Varaprasad Bolla
Vishnu M
Yogendra Joshi
Zamurrad Hanif 		Canada
India
USA
USA
Brazil
India
India
India
India
India
India
India
Argentina
UK
India
India
India
India
Pakistan		 $50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50
$50

Congratulations to the Bug Battle winners, and of course, a big thanks to all those from the uTest community who participated.

Have suggestions for our next Bug Battle? Let us know at marketing@utest.com.