Crowdsourced Software Design Platforms: Critical Assessment
- 1 King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2018.546.561
Copyright: © 2018 Reem Aliady and Sultan Alyahya. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Crowdsourcing
- Software Design
- Crowdsourced Software Design
- Software Development