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.

本研究旨在深化对软件生态系统（Software Ecosystems，SECO）中透明度的以开发者为中心的理解。本研究并未将透明度单纯视作平台定义的属性，而是基于开发者在生态系统内的交互体验，探索透明度应如何被概念化。为此，本研究提出一款概念模型，命名为SECO-TransDX（基于开发者体验视角的软件生态系统透明度，Transparency in Software Ecosystems from a Developer Experience Perspective），该模型引入了面向开发者体验的透明度这一核心概念。模型明确了一系列核心概念、制约因素、通用生态系统流程、工件以及关系动态，这些要素共同塑造了开发者在与SECO交互过程中对透明度的感知与构建方式。
本文稿件已提交至《ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology》。