Crowdsourced Testing - what do you think?

[heather_reid]

I typed a super lengthy one about my experience of this a while ago

Crowd Source Testing

I think it’s worth having an honest discussion about crowd source testing from the client and testers perspective. I’ve been in meetings where crowd sourcing was seen as the new silver bullet, “No need to hire a test team or more testers, we’ll just crowd source it”. I’ll start with my perspective on two different situations. I’ve taken part in crowd sourcing through a reasonably well known crowd sourcing company. I use this to supplement my income. If I have a big bill or holiday coming up,…

I haven’t been accepting projects quite so much any more. Back then I had a better range of android devices (7 or something). Saver me is in the process of trading them in to one day own a house