Guiding the Crowds for Android Testing

Crowdsourced testing is an emerging trend in software testing, especially for mobile testing due to Android fragment issues. Gaining the productive outputs of high quality always comes with the assumption that the workers are experienced. However, the crowd of testers are not usually professionals. Thus, it becomes an interesting topic to guide the crowd to obtain domain knowledge and fulfill tasks. Motivated by an article in Science[1], we propose an approach in this paper to enhance 'the power of the crowd'. (1) Along with professionals taking the task, exception information is recorded into database to provide hints for the crowd. (2) With the feedback from new exceptions caught in processing of crowd, the database is enriched. Such an iterative process will guide the crowd to finish their tasks effectively.