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leverAging the Crowd in soFtwAre testing
From an implementation standpoint, these events give us a sense
that crowdsourcing in the product development world, be it in the
design, development, or testing phases, has existed since the 1950s,
although it started getting formal recognition only in the last decade.
And while organizations have leveraged it in possible ways over the
last decade, there is still quite some ambiguity, fear of the unknown,
lack of overall buy-in, need for better proof that crowdsourcing can
beleveraged for a varied set of scenarios, etc., that still limit the
industry-wide ocial acceptance of this concept. is book will be
a step in that direction, de-mystifying a lot of such open questions
and providing clarity ...