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leverAging the Crowd in soFtwAre testing
• Be cost-ecient
• Account for the subject matter expertise or domain knowl-
edge that the product needs and ll any internal gaps that the
team may face
• Rope in real end users wherever possible in testing the product
• Provide an opportunity to create diversity in the quality eorts
such that representative product feedback can be obtained
Do we have such a solution as of today? Is it being universally used
and is it mature enough? Do all organizations know about such a solu-
tion? Is the solution being rightly implemented wherever it is used?
As a curious reader, you may have several such questions, and the
simple answer to all of these is crowdsourced testing.
Tying the Gap in Quality to the De ...