A Systematic Methodology for Developing Discrete Event Simulation Models of Software Development Processes

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• Title: A Systematic Methodology for Developing Discrete Event Simulation Models of Software Development Processes
• ArXiv ID: 1403.3559
• Date: 2014-03-17
• Authors: Researchers from original ArXiv paper

📝 Abstract

So far there have been several efforts for developing software process simulators. However, the approaches for developing the simulators seem to have been ad-hoc and no systematic methodology exists. Since modeling and simulation in support of software development should become more popular (and there are signs that it does), there is a need for migrating modeling from craft to engineering. This article proposes such a systematic method, focused on the development of discrete simulation-based decision models, but extensible to other modeling approaches as well.

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So far there have been several efforts for developing software process simulators. However, the approaches for developing the simulators seem to have been ad-hoc and no systematic methodology exists. Since modeling and simulation in support of software development should become more popular (and there are signs that it does), there is a need for migrating modeling from craft to engineering. This article proposes such a systematic method, focused on the development of discrete simulation-based decision models, but extensible to other modeling approaches as well.

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