[Context] Freelancers could catalyze the software development process by providing their
niche skills to generate high quality outputs. They could help companies (including startups) …

COVID-19 has compelled every sector to shift towards virtualizing, and to curb the spread of
this deadly virus, technologies like cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and IoT have …

Software crowdsourcing is an emerging and promising software development model. It is
based on the characteristics of Internet community intelligence, which makes it have certain …

Global Software Development (GSD) continues to grow substantially and although is fast
becoming the norm is fundamentally different from local Software Engineering development …

This paper reports on a study that aimed to characterize how crowd workers experienced for
the first time the use of TopCoder, a crowdsourcing platform for software development that …

Technical communicators can manage the content users share in online communities, but
this is only feasible if the users act like a community with a shared understanding of what the …

GSD offers several benefits that facilitate software organizations to adopt this trend, such as
highly skilled employees, reduced cost, cheap labour, improved marketplace, etc. To …

Crowdsourcing (CS) is a development model in which small activities are carried out
through the collaboration of participants. Many organizations are developing their products …

Context: Crowdsourcing software development (CSSD) is a form of collective intelligence
that is gaining attention in the Information Technology industry as a work alternative for …

Global Software Development (GSD) team members face barriers due to different location,
time or culture that can directly influence the coordination of these distributed teams. As …