Crowd intelligence based software development method and practices

The evolution of Internet has produced profound impacts on software development technologies, operation forms, and service models. In particular, the underlying crowd intelligence mechanisms in large-scale crowd collaboration practices, such as open sourcing and crowdsourcing, have greatly inspired the software development. Thus, this study investigates the innovation and production models for such open-sourcing and crowdsourcing practices. Based on this analysis, we propose the crowd-intelligence-based software development mechanisms including crowd collaboration, open sharing, and continuous evaluation. Specifically, we study the basic environment, the mechanism model, and the key technologies of crowd collaboration. Based on these aspects, we comprehensively discuss the crowd-intelligence-based software development environment, the involved core factors, and our open-sourcing practice. Finally, we propose the great challenges to be addressed in the future, and hope these studies and discussions are helpful.