Software Ecosystems (SECO) is defined as a set of actors that function as a unit and their relationships and interactions with a distributed market between software and services. In this context, transparency is a key coordination mechanism for ecosystem ...

In most systems-of-systems (SoS) and ecosystems, peer-to-peer relations are insufficient to provide the desired emergent behavior, but the support of mediators is necessary. Mediators are elements that facilitate the collaboration between the ...

Maintainers are now self-sabotaging their work in order to take political or economic stances, a practice referred to as "protestware". In this poster, we present our approach to understand how the discourse about such an attack went viral, how it is ...

Software Engineering has faced several challenges in the last decade, especially those related to aspects beyond the technical side. As such, technological, organizational and social aspects should be considered altogether in research and ...

Managing project dependencies is a key maintenance issue in software development. Developers need to choose an update strategy that allows them to receive important updates and fixes while protecting them from breaking changes. Semantic Versioning was ...

The reliance on vulnerable dependencies is a major threat to software systems. Dependency vulnerabilities are common and remain undisclosed for years. However, once the vulnerability is discovered and publicly known to the community, the risk of ...

Software Ecosystem (SECO) comprises third‐party developers cooperating and competing when contributing to a platform provided by a central organization (keystone). There are keystones investing in Developer Relations (DevRel) internal team as a ...

We advance on the structure for developers' governance from DevRel by proposing and refining a model because of the following research methods: grey literature review, opinion survey and interviews. The model is called DevGo (DEVeloper GOVernance) and ...

R is a package-based, multi-paradigm programming language for scientific software. It provides an easy way to install third-party code, datasets, tests, documentation and examples through CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network). Prior works indicated ...

Besides the recent adoption of outsourcing and open source business models, software factory is still a centralised process. In spite of the advantages of centralisation, it is widely accepted that decentralised systems are better alternatives; i.e., they ...

In recent years, the evolution of software ecosystems and the detection of technical debt received significant attention by researchers from both industry and academia. While a few studies that analyze various aspects of technical debt evolution ...

The findings show that most of the repayment effort goes into testing, documentation, complexity, and duplication removal. Moreover, more than half of the Python technical debt in the ecosystem is short term being repaid in less than 2 months. image image

There are software solutions to solve most of the problems related to information management in any company or institutions, but still, there is a problem for transforming information into knowledge. Technological ecosystems emerge as a solution to ...

[Context] Software testing research is a robust field of study with a lot of research that aims to improve testing activities. There are several related elements in the testing activity that can be further investigated through the concepts defined in the ...

Software ecosystems (SECOs) involve a number of actors that work together for a shared market. The software products within the software ecosystem typically have a common technological platform, and consist of a keystone player at the center of the ...

The software industry is a key engine of economic growth in Africa, which calls for sustainable and innovative approaches to build capacities in software engineering research and education for the continent. This paper presents the BRIGHT project as an ...

Database evolution is a notoriously difficult task, and it is exacerbated by the necessity to evolve database-dependent applications. As science becomes increasingly dependent on sophisticated data management, the need to evolve an array of database-...

We present a dataset of open source software developed mainly by enterprises rather than volunteers. This can be used to address known generalizability concerns, and, also, to perform research on open source business software development. Based on the ...

Software projects are increasingly forming social-technical ecosystems within which individual projects rely on the infrastructures or functional components provided by other projects, leading to complex inter-dependencies. Through inter-project ...

ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Software-intensive Business: Start-ups, Platforms and Ecosystems (IWSiB 2019) was hosted by ESEC/FSE 2019 and it was held in Tallinn in August 2019. The workshop was motivated by a preceding Dagstuhl Seminar 18182 ...

The current trend in digital solutions for the health sector is to move from fragmented services to progressively more integrated services provided by multiple stakeholders through technological ecosystem platforms. However, the business model is ...

With progressing digitalization and the trend towards autonomous computing, systems tend to form digital ecosystems, where each autonomous system aims at achieving its own goals.

Within a highway ecosystem, for example, autonomous vehicles could deploy ...