A Case Study on Software Ecosystem Characteristics in Industrial Automation Software

Daniela Lettner, Florian Angerer, Herbert Prähofer, Paul Grünbacher

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Abstract

In software ecosystems (SECOs) both internal and external developers build software solutions for specific market segments based on common technological platforms. Despite a significant body of research on SECOs there is still a need to empirically investigate the characteristics of SECOs in specific industrial environments to understand and improve development processes. In particular, when defining software processes understanding the roles of the participants in the SECO is crucial. This paper thus reports results of an exploratory case study in the industrial automation domain. We explore two research questions on SECO characteristics and discuss research issues we derived from our analyses. While our study confirms key SECO characteristics reported in the literature we also identify additional properties relevant for development processes in the domain of industrial automation.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceeding ICSSP 2014 Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Software and System Process
Editors ACM
Pages40-49
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Fields of science

  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 102022 Software development
  • 102025 Distributed systems

JKU Focus areas

  • Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
  • Engineering and Natural Sciences (in general)

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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