@article {10.3844/jcssp.2018.546.561,
article_type = {journal},
title = {Crowdsourced Software Design Platforms: Critical Assessment},
author = {Aliady, Reem and Alyahya, Sultan},
volume = {14},
number = {4},
year = {2018},
month = {Apr},
pages = {546-561},
doi = {10.3844/jcssp.2018.546.561},
url = {https://thescipub.com/abstract/jcssp.2018.546.561},
abstract = {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.},
journal = {Journal of Computer Science},
publisher = {Science Publications}
}