Paper Info
Title
Software Evolution in an Industrial Automation Ecosystem: An Exploratory Study
Abstract
In software ecosystems (SECOs) both internal and external engineers develop software solutions for specific market segments and customers based on common technological platforms. SECOs pose new challenges for software engineering as the platforms are evolved by different development teams and communities. Despite a significant body of research only few empirical results are available on software evolution in SECOs. This paper reports results of an exploratory case study on change characteristics in an industrial automation SECO. We apply Buckley et al.'s framework of software change to characterize evolution in an industrial automation SECO. We further discuss evolution challenges we derived from our analyses.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/SEAA.2014.43
EUROMICRO-SEAA
Keywords
Field
DocType
software ecosystems, software evolution, case study, industrial automation,interviews,automation,ecosystems,business,merging
Personal software process,Systems engineering,Software analytics,Computer science,Software peer review,Package development process,Software evolution,Software construction,Software development,Social software engineering
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1089-6503
13
0.53
References 
Authors
28
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniela Lettner11527.25
Florian Angerer21076.78
Paul Grünbacher32007118.84
Herbert Prähofer418917.00