XIII
Overview
Many hands make light work.
None of us is as smart as all of us.
e market is always right.
ese statements very succinctly reect the sentiment of this book on
leveraging the wisdom of the crowd in software testing. Crowdsourcing
practices across domains can be traced back at least three centuries.
Although it is such an age-old practice, it started taking formal shape
in its current name only in the last decade, thanks to the penetra-
tion of the Internet, social technologies, the agile style of development,
mobile and cloud computing, and the application-intensive software
development focus. e crowdsourcing market was estimated to be
US$500 million in 2011 and was projected to have an approximately
75% growth over 2010. Over t ...