How to Systematically Conduct Crowdsourced Software Testing? Insights from an Action Research Project
ISBN
978-0-9966831-3-5
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2016-12
Author(s)
Research Team
IWI6, Crowdsourcing, CCC
Abstract
Nowadays, traditional testing approaches become less feasible – both economically and practicably - for several reasons, such as an increasingly dynamic environment, shorter product lifecycles, cost pressure, as well as a fast growing and increasingly segmented hardware market. With the surge towards new modes of value creation, crowdsourced software testing (CST) seems to be a promising solution to effectively solve these problems and was already applied in various software testing contexts. However, literature so far mostly neglected the perspective of an organization intending to crowdsource tasks. In this study, we present an ongoing action research project with a consortium of six companies and present a preliminary model for crowdsourced software testing in organizations. The model unfolds necessary activities, process changes, and the accompanied roles for crowdsourced software testing to enable organizations to systematically conduct such initiatives and illustrates how test departments can use crowdsourcing as a new tool in their department.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Business Innovation
Book title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems - Digital Innovation at the Crossroads, ICIS 2016
Publisher
Association for Information Systems
Publisher place
AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Event Title
37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016)
Event Location
Dublin, Ireland
Event Date
11.-14.12.2016
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
249477
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