Ecosystem Survey

kaestner@cs.cmu.edu (Christian Kästner)
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT

I'm really excited about our ongoing research on change in software ecosystems. Based on our FSE'16 interview study of how developers negotiate costs around breaking changes and how practices seem to align well within an ecosystem but differ significantly across ecosystems, we are currently running a large scale survey across 28 ecosystems, asking about ecosystem values, community health, and various practices related to change planning and dealing with changes in dependencies. We encourage all developers familiar with any of those ecosystems to participate in our survey. Both results of our previous study and the survey can be found on http://breakingapis.org.