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why Crowd in soFtwAre testing
ideal to engage it to play around the product’s functionality from
an exploratory angle rather than a guided and scripted angle based
o of requirements. It can provide valuable feedback from a prod-
uct’s end-to-end functionality rather than focusing on module level
functionality, which is best taken care of internally. One cannot go
wrong in leveraging the crowd to test for functionality, whether it
is brought in from the start of the product life cycle or at a later
stage. Several teams engage with beta testers that form part of a
larger crowd they use to provide feedback right from the design and
planning stages given their subject matter expertise and past usage
experience, in which case, they are able ...