Context: Software crowdsourcing platforms typically employ extrinsic rewards such as rating or ranking systems to motivate workers. Such rating systems are noisy and only provide limited knowledge about worker's preferences and performance. Goal: The objective of this study is to empirically investigate patterns and effects of worker behavior in software crowdsourcing platforms in order to improve the success and efficiency of software crowdsourcing. Method: First, we create the bipartite network of active workers based on common registration for tasks. Then, we use the Clauset-Newman-Moore graph clustering algorithm to identify developer clusters in the network. Finally, we conduct an empirical evaluation to measure and analyze workers' behavior per identified cluster in the platform by workers' ranking. More specifically, workers' behavior is analyzed based on worker reliability, worker trustworthiness, and worker success as measures for workers' performance, worker efficiency, and worker elasticity to represent workers' preferences, and worker contest, worker confidence, and worker deceitfulness to understand workers' strategies. The empirical study is conducted on more than one year's real-world data from topcoder, one of the leading software crowdsourcing platforms. Results: We identify four clusters of active workers: mixed-ranked, high-ranked, mid-ranked, and low-ranked. Based on statistical analysis, this study can only support that the low ranked group associates with the highest reliable workers with an average reliability of 25%, while the mixed-ranked group contains the most trustworthy workers with average trustworthiness of 16%. Conclusions: These findings are helpful for task requesters to understand preferences and relations among unknown resources in the platform and plan for task success in a more effective and efficient manner in a software crowdsourcing platform.
翻译:软件众包平台 : 软件众包平台通常使用诸如评级或排名系统等外部奖励机制来激励工人。 此类评级系统非常吵闹,只提供工人偏好和业绩方面的有限知识。 目标 : 本研究的目标是实证调查软件众包平台中工人行为的模式和影响, 以提高软件众包平台的成功率和效率。 方法 : 第一, 我们创建基于任务共同注册的双方活跃工人网络。 然后, 我们使用条款- 纽曼- 摩尔图形群集算法来识别网络中的开发者偏爱群。 最后, 我们进行实证评估, 测量和分析平台中每个已确定的组的工人行为。 更具体地说, 工人行为分析基于工人的可靠性、 工人信任度和工人成功率, 代表工人的偏好, 工人竞争, 工人信心, 以及工人对理解工人战略的欺骗性。 实证研究仅用超过一年的上层代码、 领先的软件众包平台的实实在性平台数据, 。 结果: 我们根据工人的四组分析,,, 中层,,, 中层,, 中层,,, 中层,, 中层,,,, 中,,, 中层, 中,, 级,,,, 中级, 级, 上层, 级,, 级, 级,,,, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级, 级,