Toward Solving Social and Technical Problems in Open Source Software Ecosystems: Using Cause-and-Effect Analysis to Disentangle the Causes of Complex Problems
Josianne Marsan, Mathieu Templier, Patrick Marois, Bram Adams, Kévin Carillo, Georgia Leida Mopenza · IEEE Software · 2018
Many open source software (OSS) products today are market leaders, 1 which suggests that the development of OSS is key to the growth of the software industry. OSS projects increasingly tend to be incorporated in large-scale projects or "software ecosystems" to reduce effort and accelerate innovation.