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why LeverAge the crowd
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Are You Ready to Stand Out in a Crowd?
Who would not want to stand out in a crowd? While this is an age-old
idiom in use even today, if we apply this to software testing, crowd-
sourced testing holds excellent potential to help individuals who test
the software (be they testers, budding testers, end users, or domain
experts) bring out their best to not just strengthen the quality of the
product under test, but also empower it to rise and stand out in a
crowd. Why is this the case and why is crowdsourcing particularly
relevant to software testing in the current times? is is what we will
look at in detail in this chapter. To start looking at this, let us rst
understand where quality stands as of ...