@inproceedings{2c9cbab8862b459291c85597383716d7,
title = "Evaluation of software quality in the TopCoder crowdsourcing environment",
abstract = "Many practitioners use rules of thumb to take participate in tasks from online labor markets. TopCoder is such a crowdsourcing platform in which users select among and compete in a collection of contests offering various rewards. Most research efforts on crowdsourcing focus on competitive behaviors of programmers and performance of contests without discussion on the quality of a complete software project that often involves several phases in a group software production process. The main objective of our research is to capture the essential features of TopCoder projects and introduce a new approach to evaluate the quality for each TopCoder project. This paper makes two major contributions: First, we model the effort level using intrinsic properties of contest and validate the definition. We evaluate quality of each contest following the definition of effort level. Subsequently we extend the quality definition to each phase of a TopCoder project and finally obtain the whole project quality. We also perform necessary validation on our model using empirical data and show some important discovery.",
keywords = "Crowdsourcing based Software Development, Effort Level, Software Quality",
author = "Xin Wang and Wenjun Wu and Zhenghui Hu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.; 7th IEEE Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, CCWC 2017 ; Conference date: 09-01-2017 Through 11-01-2017",
year = "2017",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/CCWC.2017.7868406",
language = "英语",
series = "2017 IEEE 7th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, CCWC 2017",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
editor = "Saha, \{Himadri Nath\} and Satyajit Chakrabarti",
booktitle = "2017 IEEE 7th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, CCWC 2017",
address = "美国",
}