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Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd in Software Testing
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Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd in Software Testing

by Mukesh Sharma, Rajini Padmanaban
September 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
180 pages
4h 34m
English
Auerbach Publications
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Is Defect Management Any Dierent in a Crowdsourced Test Eort?
While the concept of defect management and the core practices
remain the same even in a crowdsourced test eort, there are some
dierences one needs to keep in mind. e dierences 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 eort.
2. Crowd testers are not bound by the inter ...
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ISBN: 9781482254495