Crowd-Sourcing Is Better and Cheaper Than the Experts at Finding Software Holes
In some circumstances your more sophisticated users are better at finding bugs in your software than expert consultants (says The Register, reporting on the efficacy of crowd-sourcing as a means of finding security holes in a browser). There’s an idea worth kicking around. Imagine: instead of using bored testers, mindlessly repeating the same keystrokes day in and day out, or automated testing tools that can only look for bugs where the developers expect to find them, actual users of the software who are already motivated to improve it getting paid real money (but less than the consultants would cost) to submit high-quality bug reports.
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