What is crowd sourcing? See what Wikipedia says: "Crowdsourcing
is a neologism compound of "crowd" and "outsourcing" for the act of
outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor
to a large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open
call."
Crowdsourcing is truly the latest trend in software testing. If you are a tester who wants to improve your testing skills at the same time earn some money, then probably crowd sourcing is the best answer. I would like to share some crowd sourcing sites which are worth checking. 1. www.utest.com Utest
is the first & the best crowd sourcing site for testing . I don’t
think anyone will be unhappy with it. Top testers at utest make a
handsome amount of money. But of course the amount of projects you get
depend on your dedication to the site & your testing skills. Its
100% trustworthy.
This site is exclusively for mobile application testing. Though the site has similar opportunities as utest, it does not have the wide range of applications to test as the latter.
I
don’t know whether I should be including this in the list of testing
websites. Because one does not need any testing skills to use the
applications in this site, (nor are they looking for any testers) .But since usability testing is a part of testing cycle I am just adding it here. The customers are not looking
for any technical bugs here. Just they want to know how user friendly
their site is. And you will be paid for your (sincere) feedback.
This is comparatively a new member in the crowd sourcing world. I have no idea about how much you can trust
this site. There are very few applications & testers here as of
now. Pay4bugs tries to copy the same functionality of utest , at the
same time it lacks the professional approach which is the backbone of
utest. But if you want to brush up your skills, there is always room for
it. Just give it a try.