sSECO-Process: avaliando a dimensão social em ecossistemas de software

Abstract

The Software Ecosystems approach (SECO) is increasingly adopted by development com-munities and software industry. This approach can provide advantages , but can also add additional complexity in resource management, which can consequently affect the soft-ware supply network. By observing SECOs, we can see through three dimensions, being business, technical and social. The social dimension focuses on stakeholders and how they interact with other dimensions. This paper presents sSECO-Process, a process for analyzing the social dimension of Software Ecosystems, supported by Complex Networks techniques, which allow the presentation of existing SECO relationships' through visu-alizations and use of metrics pertinent to complex networks. This process served as a basis for the analysis of different SECOs, and gave rise to technologies that support the collection, processing, storage and processing of data, which will aid scientists in new research related to software development. A preliminary evaluation, with real data and specialist support, is carried out to evaluate the process developed and, after the prelimi-nary evaluation, the process is extended with purpose of improving and complementing the activities performed during the analysis of the social dimension of SECOs.