Applying Software Ecosystems on Software Engineering Discipline

• Francisco Victor da Silva Pinheiro Federal University of Ceara
• Emanuel F. Coutinho Federal University of Ceara http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2233-7109

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/educomp_estendido.2021.14844

Abstract

Software Ecosystems (SECO) consist of a set of actors acting as a unit, interacting with a market distributed between software and services, together with the relationships between entities. In the literature there are some shortcomings in relation to the teaching of SECO, due to the few examples available, absence of methodologies for incorporation in the disciplines, especially in Software Engineering, and modeling tools. This work proposes a research on the application of SECO in the discipline of Software Engineering, aiming at the identification of central platforms, relationships, their modeling and the evolution of SECO.

Keywords: Software Ecosystem, Software Engineering, Teaching, Modeling, Tools

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