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Evaluation of software quality for competition-based software crowdsourcing projects

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Abstract

Crowdsourcing-based Software Development (CSSD) performs as: many software practitioners use their own experience and technology to participate software development related tasks, through the open platform such as TopCoder. Crowdsourcing software quality issue has caught some researchers‟ attention, but it is still far from enough, and no work has been done on evaluating crowdsourcing software projects from a macro point of view. In the paper, we apply traditional quality evaluation practice and theory into the evaluation of crowdsourcing-based software quality by proper modification. The main contributions of this paper are: evaluate TopCoder software quality from the perspective of Project Rating and Project Effort respectively, and explore their aggregation strategies. In order to explore the relationship between them, we introduce the definition of quality assurance effort. We believe the final project rating indicator and quality assurance effort can help a project manager to make reasonable decisions on crowdsourcing-based software development tasks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2018 7th International Conference on Software and Computer Applications, ICSCA 2018
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages102-109
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781450354141
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Feb 2018
Event7th International Conference on Software and Computer Applications, ICSCA 2018 - Kuantan, Malaysia
Duration: 8 Feb 201810 Feb 2018

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Software and Computer Applications, ICSCA 2018
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuantan
Period8/02/1810/02/18

Keywords

  • Crowdsourcing-based software development
  • Project effort
  • Project rating
  • Quality assurance effort
  • Software competition
  • Software quality
  • TopCoder

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