{"id":94145,"date":"2016-06-10T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T08:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94145"},"modified":"2016-06-19T23:39:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T21:39:40","slug":"be-a-part-of-south-africas-first-ever-testathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/94145-be-a-part-of-south-africas-first-ever-testathon","title":{"rendered":"Be a part of South Africa&#8217;s first ever &#8220;Testathon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Testathon has let us know that the event has moved from the Taj hotel to White Space Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Africa will be hosting its first-ever Testathon event.<\/p>\n<p>A Testathon is similar to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hackathon\">Hackathon <\/a><\/strong>events, but for app testers.<\/p>\n<p>It is a huge one-day event where top testers are invited to test their skills and learn from some of the best in their community.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be completely free of charge, and a number of prizes (including smart phones, tablets, watches etc.) are up for grabs. A free lunch will also be served on the day.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be taking place at White Space\u00a0Cape Town on <strong>24 June 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more details about the day and enter <a href=\"http:\/\/testathon.co\/more-info-cape-town\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bt39KucH5VA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/93797-the-biggest-movie-releases-in-south-africa-this-week-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The incredible overnight industry of backpack PCs\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93803-the-incredible-overnight-industry-of-backpack-pcs.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The incredible overnight industry of backpack PCs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Overwatch could be the biggest competitive game in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93433-overwatch-could-be-the-biggest-competitive-game-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Overwatch could be the biggest competitive game in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take part in this huge one-day event where top testers are invited to test their skills and learn from some of the best in their community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":95697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2226],"tags":[31,19201,19199,19195,19197],"class_list":["post-94145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-hackathon","tag-locla-cape-town","tag-testathon","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95699,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94145\/revisions\/95699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}