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Social aspects and how they influence MSECO developers

Authors:

Sabrina Marczak,

Cleidson R. B. de Souza,

Luiz Pedro Guerra,

Luiz Henrique Mosmann,

Fernando Figueira Filho,

Marcelo PerinAuthors Info & Claims

CHASE '19: Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

Pages 99 - 106

https://doi.org/10.1109/CHASE.2019.00032

Published: 27 May 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Mobile software ecosystem (MSECO) is a new software development paradigm for mobile technologies, having three main dimensions, namely: Technical, Business and Social. The literature has a considerable number of studies on technical and business dimensions, but only a few studies focus on the social aspects of MSECOs. However, the literature has enough to provide evidence that the actors involved, such as developers, are crucial to an MSECO. This study aims to complement earlies studies by describing new social factors that influence developers to work in a MSECO. We conducted a systematic literature review in order to identify these new factors, and a field study in which 20 developers were interviewed to understand how these factors can influence them to join or keep participating in a MSECO. We found that developer become more rigorous to continue participating then to adopt a MSECO.

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Steglich CMarczak SSantos RMosmann LGuerra Lde Souza CFilho FPerin M(2020)How do Business Factors Affect Developers in Mobile Software Ecosystems?Proceedings of the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems10.1145/3411564.3411571(1-8)Online publication date: 3-Nov-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411564.3411571

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IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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The University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Santos ICoutinho ESouza SCavalcante EDantas FBatista T(2020)Software testing ecosystems insights and research opportunitiesProceedings of the XXXIV Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering10.1145/3422392.3422458(421-426)Online publication date: 21-Oct-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3422392.3422458
Steglich CMarczak SSantos RMosmann LGuerra Lde Souza CFilho FPerin M(2020)How do Business Factors Affect Developers in Mobile Software Ecosystems?Proceedings of the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems10.1145/3411564.3411571(1-8)Online publication date: 3-Nov-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411564.3411571

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