Knowledge based quality analysis of crowdsourced software development platforms

Asad Habib (), Shahid Hussain (), Arif Ali Khan (), Muhammad Khalid Sohail (), Manzoor Ilahi (), Muhammad Rafiq Mufti () and Muhammad Imran Faisal ()
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Asad Habib: Kohat University of Science and Technology
Shahid Hussain: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Arif Ali Khan: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Muhammad Khalid Sohail: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Manzoor Ilahi: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Muhammad Rafiq Mufti: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Muhammad Imran Faisal: FUUAST

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2019, vol. 25, issue 2, No 3, 122-131

Abstract: Abstract As an emerging and promising approach, crowdsourcing-based software development has become popular in many domains due to the participation of talented pool of developers in the contests, and to promote the ability of requesters (or customers) to choose the ‘wining’ solution with respect to their desired quality levels. However, due to lack of a central mechanism for team formation, continuity in the developer’s work on consecutive tasks and risk of noise in submissions of a contest, there is a gap between the requesters of a domain and their quality concerns related to the adaptation of a crowdsourcing-based software development platform. In order to address concerns and aid requesters, we describe three measures; Quality of Registrant Developers (QRD), Quality of Contest (QC) and Quality of Support (QS) to compute and predict the quality of a crowdsourcing-based platform through historical information on its completed tasks. We evaluate the capacity of the QRD, QC and QS as assessors to predict the quality. Subsequently, we implement a crawler to mine the information of completed development tasks from the TopCoder platform to inspect the proposed measures. The promising results of our QRD, QC, and QS measures suggest to use the proposed measures to the requesters and researchers of other domains such as pharmaceutical research and development, in order to investigate and predict the quality of crowdsourcing-based software development platforms.

Keywords: Knowledge based analysis; Data driven; Crowdsourcing; Measure; Quality; TopCoder; Regression; Requestor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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