Crowdsourcing for Requirements Engineering: A Simplified Review

Abstract

The need to deal with large scale stakeholders to ensure the correctness of software requirements make crowdsourcing technique very useful. It helps to improve the optimal level of requirements quality in terms of breath and save the development cost at the same time. This paper presents and provides evidence of the relevance of crowdsourcing for requirements engineering. A systematic literature review method is adopted here and the literature exploration is based on two specific research questions. The findings from the literature show that many efforts have been done to explore and further improve crowdsourcing for software engineering in general and requirements engineering in specific. This paper provides a foundation to pursue research in improving crowdsourcing technique for the benefit of requirements engineering.