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leverAging the Crowd in soFtwAre testing
ese newer techniques are more feasible in the current day, thanks
to the growth in the social computing world, mobile world, and
infrastructure world—be it the cloud oerings, using applications
such as Facebook or LinkedIn, wherein the company or person seek-
ing input from the crowd has a platform to connect with them, and
nally, the mind-boggling growth of mobile devices and the appli-
cations built for mobile devices, which make crowdsourcing very
feasible for allentities involved. is holds true not just for crowd
creation, but all forms of crowdsourcing that follow over the next
few sections.
Crowd Voting
All of these crowdsourcing techniques are very straightforward
in deciphering the mean