A method for analyzing software product line ecosystems

  • Authors:

  • John D. McGregor

  • Affiliations:

  • Clemson University, Clemson, SC

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The ecosystem for a software product line includes all of the entities with which the software product line organization interacts. Information, artifacts, customers, money and products move among these entities as a part of the planning, development, and deployment processes. In this paper we present an analysis technique that uses the economic notion of a transaction to examine the transfers between the entities. The result of the analysis is data that is used to evaluate and structure the organization. We illustrate with an example.