The purpose of this market is to cover the crowdsourcing marketplace for testing, which we will refer to as crowdtesting. There are two main categories of crowdtesting services; vetted communities and unvetted communities. Vetted implies that the individuals have been vetted and verified by the crowdsourcing firm before connecting them with a client. There are also full service providers offering crowdtesting. This market concentrates on the pure-play vetted and unvetted providers.
“Application testing services” is a comprehensive term for the verification and validation services that support quality control and quality assurance (QA) of clients’ applications. Verification assesses whether a product/application or service complies with regulations, requirements, specifications or enforced constraints. Validation typically involves engagement with external customers to confirm suitability and acceptance. Infrastructure testing services, mobile device testing and software testing tools created for the market by independent software vendors (ISVs) are not included in this definition.