A Brechó-EcoSys extension to support negotiation in the software ecosystems context

The treatment of economic and social issues in Software Engineering was pointed out as a challenge in the coming years. Organizations have opened up their platforms and assets to others, including partners and third-party developers around the world, generating software ecosystems (SECOs). SECOs research can contribute to minimize nontechnical barriers of software reuse in industry because it explores potential relations among companies and stakeholders. However, an inhibitor is the complexity in defining value for reusable assets. This paper presents an extension of the Brechó-EcoSys environment to support components negotiations in reuse repositories. The focus is on complementing the stakeholders´ value proposition and realization, as well as incorporating a nontechnical mechanism in components repositories.