It has become an increasingly common practice that software companies collaborate with external developers to develop a software platform for a shared market, constituting software ecosystems. One main concern in adopting the practice of software ecosystem is how to attract external developers to a platform, and how to establish sustainable collaborative relationships with them. We discuss that...

Introduction Modern software development consists of typical knowledge intensive tasks, in the sense that it requires that software developers create and share new knowledge during their daily work. In this paper we propose KnowBench a knowledge management system integrated inside Eclipse IDE that supports developers during the software development process to produce better quality software. Th...

Developers need tool support to help manage the wide range of inconsistencies that occur during software development. Such tools need to provide developers with ways to define, detect, record, present, interact with, monitor and resolve complex inconsistencies between different views of software artefacts, different developers and different phases of software development. This paper describes o...

Most software tools and environments help developers analyze the present and past development states of their software systems. Few approaches have investigated the potential consequences of future actions the developers may perform. The commoditization of hardware, multi-core architectures, and cloud computing provide new potential for delivering apparently-instantaneous feedback to developers...

* corresponding author Abstract—Crowdsourcing has attracted increasing attention from both industry and academia since it was proposed. Now a lot of work is finished by crowdsourcing, such as logo design, website promotion, industrial design, copywriting, software development, translation and image annotation. Although software crowdsourcing achieves positive results in practice, we still face ...

Proponents of Free Software have argued that some of the most established software engineering principles do not fully apply when considered in an open, distributed approach. Among these principles, “Brooks’ Law” has been questioned in the Free Software context: large teams of developers, contrary to the law, will not need an increasingly growing number of communication channels. As advocates c...

A project fork occurs when software developers take a copy of source code from one software package and use it to begin an independent development work that is maintained separately. Although forking in open source software does not require the permission of the original authors, the new version competes for the attention of the same developers that have worked on the original version. The moti...

This article identifies how pure electronic commerce transforms the creatorpublisher relationship in the book and software industries. Pure electronic commerce refers to a transaction that uses information systems to avoid physical exchange and occurs entirely in the digital form. Using coordination and transaction cost theory as a theoretical framework, this article posits that coordination co...

In a open source software development, developers use revision control system for efficient management of product, and mailing list for communication among developers. These systems store development histories of the products. Developers can obtain a deeper understanding about former development by reviewing an archive. In addition, we think that developers have “task” and “knowledge” in their ...