A survey of the use of crowdsourcing in software engineering

Mao, Ke; Capra, Licia; Harman, Mark; Jia, Yunyi

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2016.09.015

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“…Crowdsourced Software Development is the application of crowdsourcing in all software development activities whether the activity itself yields a software or not such as, test case refinement and requirement elicitation (Ke Mao et al, 2015). It eliminates the difference between developers and endusers by enabling a co-creation practice, for instance, an end-user becomes a co-designer or co-tester.…”

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Crowdsourced Software Design Platforms: Critical Assessment

Aliady¹,

Alyahya²

2018

Journal of Computer Science

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There is a great interest towards the use of crowdsourcing into software development activities including: Requirements engineering, implementation, testing, evaluation and the focus of this research, design. Software design is one of the least explored activities within the concept of crowdsourcing. Therefore, this research provides a comprehensive coverage on the current state-of-the-art in the use of crowdsourcing in software design. It analyzes the current existing major crowdsourced software design platforms and discusses their workflows. The analysis results in identifying a set of limitations in the current platforms and improvements are proposed to overcome those limitations. Both findings of this research including (limitations and improvements) are validated by creating and distributing a questionnaire to software practitioners to justify the need to overcome those limitations through the proposed improvements.

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“…Crowdsourced software design is used in three design areas (Ke Mao et al, 2015): First, it can be used in generating software user interfaces. Crowds are asked by a requester to generate interfaces based on a description and a possible set of constraints.…”

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Crowdsourced Software Design Platforms: Critical Assessment

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Alyahya²

2018

Journal of Computer Science

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“…Several areas have adopted the CS to optimize results, in this form, CS quickly becomes a model for the realization of services, obtaining ideas and, innovation source of for contents [2]. Recently, CS has been applied to the software development using design, development or testing tasks for people who are globally dispersed [3].…”

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“…In this way, the literature has been constantly updated with publications to understand the benefits, challenges, and configuration of CS software development [3], [5], [6]. Because of this scenery, L'Erario et al [7] presented the results of CS teaching and learning among undergraduate students.…”

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“…According to the author, the organizations were outsourcing activities to their own audience through an open call. Therefore, many areas have benefited from this approach, and software development has concentrated benefits due to the use of specialists, cost reduction and parallelization of activities [2] According to Mao et al [3], CS has become a new approach to software development that empowers online developers to develop short, independent activities proposed by a leader. Hosseini et al [17] presented that the CS configuration uses four bases:…”

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The Use of Microtasks in Crowdsourcing Software Development

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Fabri

L’Erário

2017

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Correctness assessment of a crowdcoding project in a computer programming introductory course

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Beghelli

Huerta-Cánepa

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Crowdcoding is a programming model that outsources a software project implementation to the crowd. As educators, we think that crowdcoding could be leveraged as part of the learning path of engineering students from a computer programming introductory course to solve local community problems. The benefits are twofold: on the one hand the students practice the concepts learned in class and, on the other hand, they participate in real-life problems. Nevertheless, several challenges arise when developing a crowdcoding platform, the first one being how to check the correctness of student's code without giving an extra burden to the professors in the course. To overcome this issue, we propose a novel system that does not resort to expert review; neither requires knowing the right answers beforehand. The proposed scheme automatically clusters the student's codes based solely on the output they produce. Our initial results show that the largest cluster contains the same codes selected as correct by the automated and human testing, as long as some conditions apply. K E Y W O R D Sautomated code correctness assessment, computer programming education, crowdcoding, software crowdsourcing | INTRODUCTIONCrowdsourcing gathers a vast and diverse group of people distributed around the world working towards a common goal resorting to the "wisdom of crowds." The assumption under this new collaborative work model is that the crowd can perform a task with higher speed and quality than any expert. In the crowdsourcing language, a requester is an organization or person that submits a task to a crowdsourcing platform. The workers are the people willing to carry out the task and submit their contributions to the same platform. Wikipedia is a wellknown example of crowdsourcing, but nowadays many organizations are using this collaborative work model to improve their business in diverse areas such as product design, drug development, mining, and software development [4,15].Crowdcoding (also known as Software Crowdsourcing) builds on the idea of crowdsourcing for software development projects. In a crowdcoding-based development, the original project (either as a whole or divided into smaller/simpler tasks) is presented as a coding challenge to an online community of software engineers. A group of reviewers ranks the submissions, and the best ones are selected to build the original project. One of the advantages attributed to crowdcoding is the lowering of defect rate thanks to the various development capacity provided by different programmers [7].We argue that crowdcoding can be successfully used in educative environments as a way to solve computer-related challenges from local communities. That is, resorting to students (workers) of computer programming courses to build 162 |

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A survey of the use of crowdsourcing in software engineering

Cited by 309 publications

References 157 publications

Crowdsourced Software Design Platforms: Critical Assessment

Crowdsourced Software Design Platforms: Critical Assessment

The Use of Microtasks in Crowdsourcing Software Development

Correctness assessment of a crowdcoding project in a computer programming introductory course

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