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exceeds the overhead factor that it is in the team’s best interest
to plan the implementation eort well and keep it under con-
trol to maintain the team’s sanity.
Chapter 6: Defect Management in Crowdsourced Testing
Given the importance of defect management in any software project,
we decided to dedicate one whole chapter to this subject. Herein we
touched on defect management practices in general, how it applies to
crowdsourced testing, what best practices from generic defect man-
agement can be leveraged here, and real-life case studies of how defect
management was handled. We discussed the entire chapter through
a series of questions with the intent of foreseeing what questions you
might have and ...