Software ecosystem
Software Ecosystem is a book written by David G. Messerschmitt and Clemens Szyperski that explains the essence and effects of a "software ecosystem", defined as a set of businesses functioning as a unit and interacting with a shared market for software and services, together with relationships among them. These relationships are frequently underpinned by a common technological platform and operate through the exchange of information, resources, and artifacts.[1][2][3][4][5]
The term in software analysis
In the context of software analysis, the term software ecosystem is defined by Lungu [6] as “a collection of software projects, which are developed and co-evolve in the same environment”. The environment can be organizational (a company), social (an open-source community), or technical (the Ruby ecosystem). The ecosystem metaphor is used in order to denote an analysis which takes into account multiple software systems.[7] The most frequent of such analyses is static analysis of the source code of the component systems of the ecosystem.
References
- ↑ David G. Messerschmitt; Clemens Szyperski (2003). Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-13432-3.
- ↑ Slinger Jansen; Sjaak Brinkkemper; Michael A. Cusumano (2013). Software Ecosystems: Analyzing and Managing Business Networks in the Software Industry. Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1781955628.
- ↑ Karl M. Popp; Ralf Meyer (2010). Profit from Software Ecosystems: Business Models, Ecosystems and Partnerships in the Software Industry. Norderstedt, Germany: BOD. ISBN 978-3-8423-0051-4.
- ↑ Barbara Farbey; Anthony Finkelstein (2001). "Software acquisition: A business strategy analysis". IEEE. pp. 76–83. doi:10.1109/ISRE.2001.948546. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/743/1/1.6_00948546.pdf.
- ↑ Slinger Jansen; Anthony Finkelstein; Sjaak Brinkkemper (2007). "Providing transparency in the business of software: A modeling technique for software supply networks". IFIP. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-73798-0. ISBN 978-0-387-73797-3.
- ↑ Lungu, Mircea (2009). Reverse Engineering Software Ecosystems (Ph.D.). University of Lugano.
- ↑ "Why apps are more than icons on your mobile and they're more often software ecosystems. | Blog | Crystalnix". http://crystalnix.com/blog/2012/11/23/software-ecosystems/.
External links
- European workshop on software ecosystems
- International workshop on software ecosystems
- Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures
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