Abstract

Crowdsourcing is a name given to a revolution that marks the rise of online community made up of like minded individuals who work together or compete with each other to deliver solutions to problems. It has been used for accomplishing various Human Intelligence Tasks in the past and is an emerging form of outsourcing software development as it has the potential to significantly lower the production cost. This paper analyses the process of software development at a Crowdsourced platform. The work investigates and identifies the phase wise deliverables in a competitive software development process. We propose the use of Markov Decision Process to model the dynamics of the development process and present an illustration of the proposed model.

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