Ecossistemas de colaboração em redes de desenvolvimento de software: definição e caracterização

Abstract

Collaboration is an activity present in different organizations and biological levels, and has been the object of study in several areas of science, especially biology. In recent years, a human collaboration system has gained notoriety: collaborative software development networks. Among many web portals dedicated to the topic, GitHub is the most popular of them. In this work, we focus on GitHub to analyze the collaborative development of software, adapting the biological concept of ecosystem in order to obtain a complementary view in relation to those obtained with the methodologies practiced in the literature. This analysis seeks to understand the main characteristics of collaborative ecosystems on GitHub and if there are similarities between them.