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Software ecosystems architectural health: challenges x practices

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Simone da Silva Amorim,

John D. McGregor,

Eduardo Santana de Almeida,

Christina von Flach G. ChavezAuthors Info & Claims

ECSAW '16: Proccedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops

Article No.: 4, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/2993412.3011881

Published: 28 November 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Over time many software ecosystems have achieved success. Several organizations are opening their software projects for external businesses, creating an multi-organizational government to development their software platform The software architecture has an important participation in this success. In this context, there are some studies describing architectural challenges for software ecosystems, but little research is investigating how these challenges are being faced by software ecosystems organizations. This paper presents an initial investigation how open source software (OSS) ecosystems have faced several architectural challenges. We conducted interviews with three architects of different OSS ecosystems and gathered some architectural practices to lead with challenges. We also analyzed how these architectural practices have influenced the software ecosystem health, introducing the concept of Software Ecosystems Architectural Health.

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Software ecosystems architectural health: challenges x practices
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management

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ECSAW '16: Proccedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops

November 2016

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ISBN:9781450347815

DOI:10.1145/2993412

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Ribeiro MDias-Neto ANakagawa EOquendo FAvgeriou PSantos R(2017)Company health in mobile software ecosystem (MSECO)Proceedings of the Joint 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems and 11th Workshop on Distributed Software Development, Software Ecosystems and Systems-of-Systems10.5555/3103196.3103215(74-75)Online publication date: 20-May-2017
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