Measuring the health of open source software ecosystems: Beyond the scope of project health

Slinger Jansen

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2014.04.006

journal article Nov 01, 2014

Measuring the health of open source software ecosystems: Beyond the scope of project health

Slinger Jansen

Information and Software Technology Vol. 56 No. 11 pp. 1508-1519 · Elsevier BV

View at Publisher Save 10.1016/j.infsof.2014.04.006

Topics

No keywords indexed for this article. Browse by subject →

References

31

[1]

Baars "A framework for software ecosystem governance" (2012)

[2]

Barbosa "A systematic mapping study on software ecosystems through a three-dimensional perspective" (2013)

[3]

Crowston "Information systems success in free and open source software development: theory and measures" Software Process: Improvement and Practice (2006) 10.1002/spip.259

[4]

Crowston "Open source software projects as virtual organisations: competency rallying for software development" IEEE Software (2002) 10.1049/ip-sen:20020197

[5]

Cusumano (2012)

[6]

E. den Hartigh, M. Tol, W. Visscher, The health measurement of a business ecosystem, in: S. Jansen, M. Cusumano, S. Brinkkemper (Eds.), Software Ecosystems: Analyzing and Managing Business Networks in the Software Industry, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2013. 10.4337/9781781955635.00020

[7]

Dhungana "Guiding principles of natural ecosystems and their applicability to software ecosystems" (2013)

[8]

Gamalielsson "The nagios community: an extended quantitative analysis" (2010)

[9]

J. Gamalielsson, B. Lundell, B. Lings, Responsiveness as a measure for assessing the health of oss ecosystems, in: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Building Sustainable Open Source Communities (OSCOMM 2010), 2010, pp. 1–8.

[10]

Gousios "The ghtorent dataset and tool suite" (2013)

[11]

N. Haenni, M. Lungu, N. Schwarz, O. Nierstrasz, Categorizing developer information needs in software ecosystems, in: Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures, 2013, pp. 1–5. 10.1145/2501585.2501586

[12]

Hoving "Python: characteristics identification of a free open source software ecosystem" (2013)

[13]

Iansiti (2004)

[14]

Iansiti "Strategy as ecology" Harvard Business Review (2004)

[15]

Jansen (2013)

[16]

Jansen "Shades of gray: opening up a software producing organization with the open software enterprise model" J. Syst. Software (2012) 10.1016/j.jss.2011.12.007

[17]

S. Jansen, A. Finkelstein, S. Brinkkemper, A sense of community: a research agenda for software ecosystems, in: 31st International Conference on Software Engineering, New and Emerging Research Track, 2009. 10.1109/icse-companion.2009.5070978

[18]

Lakhani (2005)

[19]

Lucassen "Ecosystem health of cloud paas providers" (2013)

[20]

B. Lundell, B. Forssten, J. Gamalielsson, H. Gustavsson, R. Karlsson, C. Lennerholt, B. Lings, A. Mattsson, E. Olsson, Exploring health within oss ecosystems, in: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Building Sustainable Open Source Communities, Tampere University of Technology, 2009.

[21]

Lungu "Recovering inter-project dependencies in software ecosystems" (2010)

[22]

Manikas "Software ecosystems–a systematic literature review" J. Syst. Software (2012)

[23]

K. Manikas, K.M. Hansen, Reviewing the health of software ecosystems: a conceptual framework proposal, in: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Ecosystems, 2013.

[24]

Mens "Studying evolving software ecosystems based on ecological models" (2014)

[25]

Mens "Analysing ecosystems for open source software developer communities" (2013)

[26]

S. Syed, S. Jansen, On clusters in open source ecosystems, in: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Ecosystems, 2013.

[27]

S. van Lingen, A. Palomba, G. Lucassen, On the software ecosystem health of open source content management systems, in: the Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Software Ecosystems, 2013.

[28]

Waltl "Ip modularity in software ecosystems: how sugarcrms ip and business model shape its product architecture" (2012)

[29]

West "Evolving an open ecosystem: the rise and fall of the symbian platform" Advances in Strategic Management (2013) 10.1108/s0742-3322(2013)0000030005

[30]

A. Wiggins, J. Howison, K. Crowston, Heartbeat: measuring active user base and potential user interest in floss projects, in: Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse Communities Interacting, 2009, 94–104. 10.1007/978-3-642-02032-2_10

[31]

Wynn "Assessing the health of an open source ecosystem" (2007)

Metrics

120

Citations

31

References

Details

Published: Nov 01, 2014
Vol/Issue: 56(11)
Pages: 1508-1519
License: View

Authors

S

Slinger Jansen

Cite This Article

Slinger Jansen (2014). Measuring the health of open source software ecosystems: Beyond the scope of project health. Information and Software Technology, 56(11), 1508-1519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2014.04.006

Measuring the health of open source software ecosystems: Beyond the scope of project health

You May Also Like