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TRUSTIE: A Software Development Platform for Crowdsourcing

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Software development is either creation activities that rely on developers creativity and talents, or manufacturing activities that follow the engineering processes. Engineering processes need to include creation activities to address tasks such as requirement elicitation and bug finding . On the other hand, by exploiting the crowd wisdom, open-source development has been demonstrated to be a suitable environment for software creation. However, it also has several limitations, such as guaranteeing the progress and quality of production process. This paper introduces a software development platform and ecosystem that combines the strengths of the two models. First, we propose the Trustworthy Software Model as a basis to support such a hybrid development ecosystem . The core of this model contains a novel lifecycle model, an evidence model and an evolution model. Second, based on the model, we propose the Trustworthy Software Development and Evolution Service Model. It integrates crowd collaboration , resource sharing, runtime monitoring , and trustworthiness analysis into an unified framework. Based on this integrated model, we designed and implemented TRUSTIE , which distinguishes itself from other software crowdsourcing platforms by providing the software collaborative development service and the resource sharing service with the general support of trustworthiness-analysis tools. TRUSTIE enables crowd-oriented collaboration among internal development teams and the external crowds by combining the software creation and software manufacturing in one ecosystem.

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Acknowledgments

This research is supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2012AA011200), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61432020 and 61472430). Our gratitude goes to all members of the TRUSTIE project, for their hard work and contribution, and also to the experts from the information technology domain of the National 863 Plan, for their continuous support and guidance.

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    Huaimin Wang, Gang Yin, Xiang Li & Xiao Li

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  3. School of Computing, Informatics & Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University Dept. Computer Science & Engineering, Tempe, Arizona, USA

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Wang, H., Yin, G., Li, X., Li, X. (2015). TRUSTIE: A Software Development Platform for Crowdsourcing. In: Li, W., Huhns, M., Tsai, WT., Wu, W. (eds) Crowdsourcing. Progress in IS. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47011-4_10

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