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leverAging the Crowd in soFtwAre testing
Is Defect Management Any Dierent in a Crowdsourced Test Eort?
While the concept of defect management and the core practices
remain the same even in a crowdsourced test eort, there are some
dierences one needs to keep in mind. e dierences mainly stem
from the following areas:
1. A possible remote location of the crowd testers: Unless an
internal crowd in the same location of the core team is lever-
aged, in most cases even when the company’s own employees
form the crowd team, they are located remotely from the core
project team. Defect management calls for its own discipline
and rigor, which makes it more challenging to enforce in a
crowd test eort.
2. Crowd testers are not bound by the inter ...