Crowdsourcing contests allow organisations to engage with an external workforce. Over the
years, the phenomenon has attracted considerable research interest. In the present review …

Human values (eg, pleasure, privacy, and social justice) are what a person or a society
considers important. Inability to address them in software-intensive systems can result in …

Knowledge building is a prevalent feature in open online systems, but it is challenging to
motivate participants to contribute and to maintain quality in the participants' contributions …

Branching is a feature of distributed version control systems that facilitates the" divide and
conquer" strategy present in complex and collaborative work domains. Branching has …

Software Crowdsourcing (SW CS) allows a requester to increase the speed of its software
development efforts by submitting a task to be performed by the crowd. SW CS is usually …

The success of idea crowdsourcing platforms relies on fostering a collaborative environment
that encourages active user participation, measured by the quality and quantity of …

Abstract Crowdsourcing Software Development (CSD) platforms, ie, TopCoder, function as
intermediaries connecting clients with developers. Despite employing systematic …

Crowdsourcing has been discussed extensively in business media and online forums in
recent years. However, it has been difficult to gain traction as an actual instrument for …

As data becomes an integral part of our lives, the general public faces the increasing need
to actively engage with data to participate in daily activities, support personal goals, and …

An issue in software crowdsourcing is the quality of the task documentation and the high
number of registered crowd workers to solve tasks but few submitted solutions only. This …