Software Ecosystems Governance - A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

Alves, Carina; Oliveira, Joyce Aline; Jansen, Slinger

doi:10.5220/0006269402150226

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“…We can also find some systematic reviews that have been conducted as regards IT governance, such as the work in Alves et al 31 where software ecosystems are studied in detail, identifying governance mechanisms suitable to this kind of environments. On the other hand, in Luna et al 32 the current challenge of research in agile governance is addressed, highlighting the need for researchers and practitioners to work together to establish reciprocal research agenda in this area.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions

Manjavacas

Vizcaíno

Ruíz

et al. 2020

J Software Evolu Process

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Global software development (GSD) has become a rising software development model in the last few years. Although much research has been performed in terms of GSD management, GSD governance research is scarce at the present time and presents multiple challenges that need to be addressed. In this paper, a systematic mapping study has been conducted, the aim of which was to discover the main issues dealt with in GSD governance literature, as well as to point out the particular research gaps that are still present in this domain. This allowed us to find out new challenges to be addressed, along with possible solutions to these. The results reveal a lack of research in key aspects such as tools, culture, people, and information, all of which provides a great opportunity for future approaches while also highlighting new opportunities in GSD governance research.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions

Manjavacas

Vizcaíno

Ruíz

et al. 2020

J Software Evolu Process

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“…[27] Systematic mapping study about open source software ecosystems focused on what they are and how they are modelled. [24] It focuses on a particular aspect of software ecosystems, the governance mechanisms of this type of technological solutions. [28] It performs a systematic mapping on requirements engineering in software ecosystems.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although is not typical that an author publishes several systematic reviews or mappings about the same topic, some authors have conducted more than one study. In particular, Manikas appears in three works [2,21,22] and Alves [23,24] and Andersson [25,26] appear in two works. The other authors appear only once in the context of this mapping study.…”

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“…Finally, there are 5 studies that go in depth in a particular characteristic or technique related to software ecosystems: 1 paper about requirements engineering [28]; 1 paper that analyses the governance mechanisms in SECO [24]; 1 paper focused on key performance indicators (KPIs) [30]; 1 paper about "ecosystem health" which refers to a set of key indicators of well-being, longevity and performance of a SECO [32]; and 1 paper about how to document or describe SECOs [25].…”

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Mapping the systematic literature studies about software ecosystems

García‐Holgado

García-Peñalvo

2018

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality

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There is a need to improve the definition and development of technological ecosystems in order to solve the main problems detected in previous studies. To achieve this goal, it is required to identify and analyse the solutions available in the literature in the field of software engineering applied to ecosystems. The research in software ecosystems is a relatively young research area, but there are already several works that analyse the literature associated. To conduct a new systematic literature review is necessary to ensure that there are no studies that do the same, namely, that do not answer the same research questions. The identification of the need for a review was done through a study focused on systematic literature reviews and mapping studies about software ecosystems. This work aims to describe the mapping conducted as part of that study. It provides a global state of the art of this kind of studies in the area of software ecosystems. CCS CONCEPTS • Information systems • Software and its engineering → Software creation and management • Software and its engineering → Ultra-large-scale systems

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“…This method can help in defining and evolving strategies to govern developers in MSECO. Alves et al (2017) define software ecosystem governance mechanisms as managerial tools that aim to influence the ecosystem's health. Ecosystem's health refers to which extent a SECO is functioning well (Manikas & Hansen, 2013b).…”

Section: Mobile Software Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting governance of mobile application developers from mining and analyzing technical questions in stack overflow

Fontão

Ábia

Wiese

et al. 2018

J Softw Eng Res Dev

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There is a need to improve the direct communication between large organizations that maintain mobile platforms (e.g. Apple, Google, and Microsoft) and third-party developers to solve technical questions that emerge during the project and development of developers' contributions in a Mobile Software Ecosystem (MSECO). In this context, those organizations may not know how to define and evolve strategies to govern their developers towards achieving their organizational goals. Such organizations use an infrastructure to support developers, for example, questions and answers (Q&A) portals such as Stack Overflow. Interactions among developers in these portals feed a Q&A repository that can serve as a mechanism to understand and define strategies to support developers. In this paper, we mined 1,568,377 technical questions from Stack Overflow related to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone platforms. Next, we performed comparisons among those MSECO regarding: (i) developers' activity intensity, (ii) hot-topics (using Latent Dirichlet allocation algorithm) from all and more commented/viewed questions, (iii) "What" and "How to" questions, (iv) hot-topics from more viewed unanswered questions, and (v) relationship among questions and official developer events. From the results, we identified four key insights: recruiting, educating, and monitoring strategies; barrier reduction; management of technology insertion; and fostering of relationships. The relevance of the four key insights to support developer governance was evaluated by practitioners through a survey. Finally, for each key insight we associated a total of 10 strategies to support developer governance activities. Such strategies were extracted from 65 studies identified through a systematic mapping of the literature. IntroductionIn Software Engineering, the relationship among mobile application developers and an organization responsible for a technological platform (keystone) which involves cooperation and competition has been investigated as a Software Ecosystem (SECO) (Bosch, 2009). In the mobile application (app) scenario, this context refers to a specific type of SECO, known as Mobile Software Ecosystem (MSECO) (Lin & Ye, 2009;Fontão et al., 2015). The developer is an essential actor to sustain MSECO contributions, such as apps and technical documentation (Fontão et al., 2016;Koch & Kerschbaum, 2014). Such contributions are usually stored in an official, internal MSECO repository, such as Android 1 and Apple 2 Developers repositories. Moreover, there are links between MSECO and external repositories, such as code (e.g. GitHub) (Casalnuovo et al., 2015) and questions and answers (Q&A) repositories. As an example of an external Q&A repository, Stack Overflow has a set of technical questions/answers that arise from the use of APIs, SDKs, and development tools (Ahmad et al., 2018). Such external repositories help to maintain the interaction among developers over a common platform, resulting in a set of contributions and influencing directly or indirectly the...

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Software Ecosystems Governance - A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

Cited by 40 publications

References 22 publications

Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions

Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions

Mapping the systematic literature studies about software ecosystems

Supporting governance of mobile application developers from mining and analyzing technical questions in stack overflow

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