Healthy until otherwise proven: Some proposals for renewing research of software ecosystem health




Hyrynsalmi S., Ruohonen J., Seppänen M.

Bram Adams et al.

International Workshop on Software Health

PublisherIEEE Computer Society

2018

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Software Health

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

18

24

7

978-1-4503-5730-2

2333-7400

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1145/3194124.3194128



The software ecosystem has become a central conceptualisation for characterising the contemporary software business world. To understand and evaluate ecosystems, the concept of 'ecosystem health' was borrowed from the field of biology. In a 'healthy' ecosystem, the participants will flourish and, vice versa, suffer in an unhealthy one. Yet, there is a lack of empirical validations for the current approach as well as certain limitations regarding the concept. This paper will present a critique on current ecosystem health measurement and evaluation approaches. In addition, there is discussion on three proposals that could help to refocus the academic research on software ecosystem health.



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