What do you think of "crowd-sourced" testing?

[Franklin]

What do you think of "crowd-sourced" testing?

[eValid]

What do you think of "crowd-sourced" testing?

The term "crowd-sourcing" seems to refer to "the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community (crowd) through an open call" according to Wikipedia.

In many ways, this is a way of describing the traditional (and ineffective) way of testing: sending the products to customers and waiting for complaints!

In a way, ALL software products are "crowd-tested" because their users test them and make complaints when something doesn't work. Or at least they are supposed to complain -- yet many don't.

If that process works, allowing customers to be your QA department...well, that really isn't a process is it. It's more like a non-process.

The bottom line: we don't think much of crowd-sourced testing.

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