TY - GEN
T1 - Researching crowdsourcing software development
T2 - 1st International Workshop on CrowdSourcing in Software Engineering, CSI-SE 2014
AU - Stol, Klaas Jan
AU - Fitzgerald, Brian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 ACM.
PY - 2014/6/2
Y1 - 2014/6/2
N2 - Crowdsourcing is an emerging form of 'outsourcing' software development. While there has been considerable research in the area of crowdsourcing in general, very little research has focused specifically on how crowdsourcing works in a software development context, and as far as we know, there have been no published studies of crowdsourcing software development from a customer perspective. Based on a review of the literature, we identified a number of key concerns related to crowdsourcing that are of particular importance in a software development context. Furthermore, we observed a number of recurring key stakeholders, or actors, each of whom has a unique perspective on crowdsourcing. This paper presents a research framework that consists of the various combinations of stakeholders and key concerns. The framework can be used to guide future research on the use of crowdsourcing as a 'sourcing' strategy, as well as a means to review and synthesize research findings so as to be able to compare studies on crowdsourcing in a software development context.
AB - Crowdsourcing is an emerging form of 'outsourcing' software development. While there has been considerable research in the area of crowdsourcing in general, very little research has focused specifically on how crowdsourcing works in a software development context, and as far as we know, there have been no published studies of crowdsourcing software development from a customer perspective. Based on a review of the literature, we identified a number of key concerns related to crowdsourcing that are of particular importance in a software development context. Furthermore, we observed a number of recurring key stakeholders, or actors, each of whom has a unique perspective on crowdsourcing. This paper presents a research framework that consists of the various combinations of stakeholders and key concerns. The framework can be used to guide future research on the use of crowdsourcing as a 'sourcing' strategy, as well as a means to review and synthesize research findings so as to be able to compare studies on crowdsourcing in a software development context.
KW - Crowdsourcing software development
KW - Research framework
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84928320832&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2593728.2593731
DO - 10.1145/2593728.2593731
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84928320832
T3 - 1st International Workshop on CrowdSourcing in Software Engineering, CSI-SE 2014 - Proceedings
SP - 7
EP - 10
BT - 1st International Workshop on CrowdSourcing in Software Engineering, CSI-SE 2014 - Proceedings
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 2 June 2014
ER -