How do Technical Factors Affect Developers in Mobile Software Ecosystems
Caio Steglich, Sabrina dos Santos Marczak, Rodrigo Pereira dos Santos, Luiz Pedro Guerra, Luiz Henrique Mosmann, Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Fernando Figueira Filho, Marcelo Gattermann Perin · 2019
The Software Evolution area brings applications to the Mobile era in which users want to use these applications on their mobile devices. A Mobile Software Ecosystem (MSECO) is the kind of ecosystems in which developers build applications to attend the needs of mobile technologies users (e.g., Android and iOS). Literature explains that the capability to attracting and retaining people (i.e., developers and users) is essencial to MSECO sustainability, i.e., to the MSECO survive along the years. In a previous work, we conducted a literature review that identified 6 factors that may influence developers to participate in an MSECO. In this study, we present a Field Study aiming to understand how these 6 identified factors may have influenced practitioners in real life projects.