Identifying actors to support software ecosystem health

Abstract

The maintenance and balance of Software Ecosystem (SECO) Health is one of the most important success of a keystone actor factors, since both provide the growth and engagement of actors during the life cycle of SECO. In this context, maintaining the health of the SECO has been observed in studies from the perspective of three categories of indicators: productivity, robustness and niche creation. Given this, it is important to analyze the impact that actors in these health indicators. Therefore, the methodology used to develop this research was based on an exploratory study in which, firstly, through technical relationships, the roles and actors acting in a public domain SECO were identified. Thus, a framework was elaborated from the conduction of interviews and applications of questionnaires, allows the analysis of the factors and roles of the actors of an SECO in the public domain. As results, the framework suggests which are the actors that exert a greater influence in the maintenance and balance of SECO.