Towards an interdisciplinary, socio-technical analysis of software ecosystem health
This addresses the problem of maintaining healthy software ecosystems for software engineers and practitioners, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing interdisciplinary approaches.
The SECOHealth project aims to develop an interdisciplinary methodology and tools to improve software ecosystem health, with preliminary results from a collaboration between universities in Canada and Belgium.
This extended abstract presents the research goals and preliminary research results of the interdisciplinary research project SECOHealth, an ongoing collaboration between research teams of Polytechnique Montreal (Canada), the University of Mons (Belgium) and Laval University (Canada). SECOHealth aims to contribute to research and practice in software engineering by delivering a validated interdisciplinary scientific methodology and a catalog of guidelines and recommendation tools for improving software ecosystem health.