Software CROWD-sourcing

摘要

Software crowdsourcing emerged from the crowdsourcing concept and inherited most of features from it. However, it adapted its nature according to the requirements of software engineering techniques and technologies. Therefore, it is important to understand the detailed elucidation of software crowdsourcing. This paper introduces the connotation of CROWD (Community, Remoteness, Open-call, Web, Diversity) in crowdsourcing and in particular software crowdsourcing. It expounds the meaning and importance of these five CROWD components of software crowdsourcing and their contribution in making it successful.