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Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd in Software Testing
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Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd in Software Testing

by Mukesh Sharma, Rajini Padmanaban
September 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
180 pages
4h 34m
English
Auerbach Publications
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2
An overvIew Into
crowdsourcIng
You Perform, We Provide the Platform
We looked at what a crowd is in Chapter 1. Although the focus of
this book is crowdsourced testing, crowdsourcing has a much larger
meaning that we should understand. Crowdsourcing is growing leaps
and bounds in its scope and reach, given the growth in technology
that facilitates putting together a crowdsourced team. Crowdsourced
testing is only a subset of the larger crowdsourcing umbrella.
What Is Crowdsourcing?
ere is no one universal denition for the term crowdsourcing;
however, there are zillions of denitions that oat online on what
this term means, as it has a very simple and intuitive meaning based
on its name and the activities it entails. Some of the more pop ...
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ISBN: 9781482254495