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Table8.1 Formal vs. Crowdsourced Testing Career
PARAMETER FORMAL TESTING CAREER CROWDSOURCED TESTING CAREER
Number of
jobs
Typically one, unless you are
consulting with multiple
companies with the consent of
all companies to work at
multiple places.
Can be many. You can register to be a crowd
tester with several groups or organizations
and there is typically no stopping from a
conict of interest standpoint, unless you
have signed an nondisclosure agreement
(NDA) that prevents you from working on
similar applications/products.
Variety in work Variety between projects is
limited. Typically a tester is tied ...