In proceedings of the 27th annual acm symposium on user interface software and technology pp. To conclude, our contribution is to propose a concept of social and collaborative source code annotation and to explore it through the creation of our webbased. Latoza, paurav surendra, seyedmeysam abolghasemi abstractmicrotask programming is a form of crowdsourcing for. Microtask crowdsourcing organizes complex work into. Proceedings of the 27th annual acm symposium on user interface software and technology uist 14. As the name suggests, the rise of the web, smart phones, and affordable wireless sensors meant that organizations interested in. By breaking down the overall task at hand into microtasks providing short, selfcontained pieces of work, work can be. Papers software design and collaboration laboratory. Note that several diverged from the core themes of humancentered programming tools since some students were interested in more distantly related topics.
The benefits and challenges of crowd coding in comparison to the normal software implementation process must be also investigated. A case study of crowdsourcing software development. Signaturechange microtask departmentofinformacs,ucirvine sdcl collaboraon laboratory sowaredesignand sdcl. These crowdsourcing systems work by organizing work into microtasks. Companies lacking the skills or manpower to complete coding projects usually onboard a new employee or contract a freelancer. Microtask crowdsourcing organizes complex work into workflows, decomposing large tasks into small, relatively independent microtasks. Personalized information access for online deliberation systems. Symposium on user interface software and technology uist, 4354. To evaluate the feasibility of microtask programming, we performed a small study and found that a small crowd of 12 workers was able to successfully write 480 lines of code and 61 unit tests in 14. Applied to software development, this model might increase. While there is a variety of approaches to support developers for change. Uist 14 proceedings of the 27th annual acm symposium on.
Interactive and collaborative source code annotation. Underlying the success of crowdsourcing is a common theme the microtask. Crowdsource the notation of your domainspecific language. Uist 2014 27th symposium on user interface software and. Applied to software development, this model might increase participation in open source software development by lowering the barriers to contribution and dramatically decrease time to market by increasing the parallelism in development work. However, theres a third, more costeffective option for oneoff. By using an existing microtask crowdsourcing service as literally a source of crowd workers, various work can be placed in the proposed system and can be achieved. Crowdsourcing software development or software crowdsourcing is an emerging area of software engineering.
Pdf crowd development is a development process designed for transient workers of varying skill. Microtask programming is a form of crowdsourcing for programming in which implementation work is decomposed into short, selfcontained microtasks. A longterm vision of microtask programming is to enable software to be built entirely through microtasks 21. A study of recombination in software design competitions, thirtyseventh international conference on software engineering, may 2015, pages 551562. Crowd development might help to reduce time to market and software development costs, increase programmer productivity, and make programming more fun. In acm symposium on user interface software and technology. Thomas attended uist 2014 in honolulu, presenting his paper on microtask programming. Emergent, crowdscale programming practice in the ide. Travel software design and collaboration laboratory. To more effectively harness potential contributions from the crowd, we. We show application of the system to the microtask drawing generation method, which cannot be placed in the existing services. Should software developers be replaced by the crowd. To complete a change task, software developers perform a number of activities, such as locating and editing the relevant code.
User interfaces for programming languages eecs 598015 fa19. Microtask crowdsourcing has found application to software development for tasks. A study examining the feasibility of microtask programming to create small programs found that developers were able to complete 1008 microtasks, onboard and submit their first microtask in less than 15 minutes, complete all types of microtasks in less than 5 minutes on average, and create 490 lines of code and 149 unit tests. Each microtask asks workers to perform a short welldefined task on a single artifact a function or a test. Proceedings of the 36th international conference on software engineering, pp. A vision of crowd development proceedings of the 37th. One approach is to provide a library of functions that can be called by programs. Humans interact with programming languages by way of user interfaces of widely varying design. Mining specifications from documentation using a crowd.
We have implemented our approach in crowdcode, a cloud ide for crowd development. There were a number of interesting papers related to programming tools and. Building software with a crowd thomas latoza1, ben towne2, christian adriano1. Implementing microservices through microtasks arxiv. Abstractmicrotask programming is a form of crowdsourcing for programming in which implementation work is. Towards activityaware tool support for change tasks. It is an open call for participation in any task of software development, including.