Strategies for Crowdworkers to Overcome Barriers in Competition-based Software Crowdsourcing Development

A. L. Zanatta, L. Machado, Igor Steinmacher, R. Prikladnicki, C. D. Souza
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Crowdsourcing in software development uses a large pool of developers on-demand to outsource parts or the entire software project to a crowd. To succeed, this requires a continuous influx of developers, or simply crowdworkers. However, crowdworkers face many barriers when attempting to participate in software crowdsourcing. Often, these barriers lead to a low number and poor quality of submitted solutions. In our previous work, we identified several barriers faced by crowdworkers including finding a task according to his/her abilities, setting up the environment to perform the task, and managing one's personal time. We also proposed six strategies to overcome or minimize these barriers. In this paper, these six strategies are evaluated questioning Software Crowdsourcing (SW CS) experts. The results show that software crowdsourcing needs to: (i) provide a system that helps matching tasks requirements and crowdworker's profile; (ii) adopt containers or virtual machines to help crowdworkers set up their environment to perform the task, (iii) plan and control crowdworkers' personal time, and (iv) adopt communication channels to allow crowdworkers to clarify questions about the requirements and, as a consequence, finish the tasks.
基于竞争的软件众包开发中众包工作者克服障碍的策略
软件开发中的众包使用大量的开发人员按需将部分或整个软件项目外包给人群。要想成功,这就需要不断涌入的开发者,或者只是众包工作者。然而,众包工作者在尝试参与软件众包时面临许多障碍。通常,这些障碍会导致提交的解决方案数量少、质量差。在我们之前的工作中,我们发现了众包工作者面临的几个障碍,包括根据他/她的能力找到任务,设置执行任务的环境,以及管理个人时间。我们还提出了克服或尽量减少这些障碍的六项策略。本文通过对软件众包专家的提问,对这六种策略进行了评价。结果表明,软件众包需要:(1)提供一个系统,帮助匹配任务要求和众包工作者的个人资料;(ii)采用容器或虚拟机,帮助众包工作者搭建执行任务的环境;(iii)规划和控制众包工作者的个人时间;(iv)采用沟通渠道,让众包工作者澄清需求问题,从而完成任务。
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