More projects by:

Christian M. Adriano
Thomas LaToza
André van der Hoek

More projects in categories:

Crowdsourcing, 
Debugging, 
Open Source, 
Software Design

Crowd Debugging

Principal Investigators: 
André van der Hoek
Project Dates: 
January 2013
Research Area(s): 
Crowdsourcing, 
Debugging, 
Open Source, 
Software Design
Researchers and Staff: 
Christian Adriano, 
Thomas LaToza
Project Description: 

When a live site is down or time is of the essence, software teams mobilize to fix bugs as fast as possible. How might such important bugs be fixed more quickly? One answer is through crowdsourcing, where ad-hoc participants are each given small, self-contained microtasks that are then aggregated into an overall solution. To explore this idea, we are currently designing new techniques and tools for crowd debugging.