Crowdsourced Testing
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In simple terms, crowd sourced testing is leveraging the community at large to test a given product. This is the community that spans people from diverse cultures, geographies, languages, walks of life who test the given software, putting the software to use under very realistic scenarios which a tester in the core test team may not be able to think of, given his / her limited bounds of operation.
There are specific crowd sourcing companies such as utest.com that bring together crowd sourced testers and companies needing such testing to boot strap and carry on the overall project.
When Crowd Sourced Testing is likely to work well?
- There is a global user base for the product under development
- Product under development is more consumer centric rather than enterprise centric. E.g. Gaming, Mobile, web driven consumer products/applications, where global user feedback makes sense
- ·The product company is committed to working with a large group of people, understanding it involves some amount of overhead in such a decentralized test effort, rather than containing everything in house
- The product requires subject matter expertise in certain specialized areas and such expertise is wide spread. E.g.content testing in specific domains, language testing etc. for which gathering in-house expertise is expensive, if at all possible.
When Crowd Sourced Testing is not likely to work?
- ·Incorrect team is assembled with the wrong choice of testers, whose backgrounds do not best fit to test the product
- ·When the test effort is left to the community and the product test management fails to tie their efforts into the overall test strategy