Towards an Understanding of Developer Experience-Oriented Transparency in Software Ecosystems

This work aims to advance a developer-centered understanding of transparency in software ecosystems (SECO). Instead of approaching transparency solely as a platform-defined attribute, we explore how it can be conceptualized based on how developers experience their interactions within the ecosystem. To this end, we propose a conceptual model, named SECO-TransDX (Transparency in Software Ecosystems from a Developer Experience Perspective), which introduces the notion of developer experience-oriented transparency. The model identifies key concepts, conditioning factors, common ecosystem procedures, artifacts, and relational dynamics that shape how transparency is perceived and constructed from the developer’s perspective during interactions with SECO.

Manuscript submitted to ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.