Paper Info
Title
Agent-based simulation of the software development process: A case study at AVL
Abstract
Software development projects are difficult to manage due to the high uncertainty in their various phases. Simulation is one of the tools that has been used to help software project managers produce project plans. Research into software process simulation modeling (SPSM) shows the dominance of discrete-event simulation and system dynamics. This paper supports the use of ABS in SPSM. We propose a practical effort function to estimate developers' behavior. The other contribution of this paper is to demonstrate how the ABS model can be developed, calibrated and validated using data readily available to many software development companies/departments. This paper focuses on the construction phase of a tailored Rational Unified Process used in a geographically distributed software development department at AVL. The results look promising but more work needs to be done to include ABS into one of the mainstream simulation paradigms in SPSM.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/WSC.2012.6465117
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
discrete event simulation,planning,project management,software development management,ABS,AVL,SPSM,agent-based simulation,discrete-event simulation,mainstream simulation paradigms,project plans,rational unified process,software development process,software development project management,software process simulation modeling,system dynamics
Personal software process,Systems engineering,Simulation,Package development process,Computer science,Software project management,Software development process,Team software process,Software development,Goal-Driven Software Development Process,Software sizing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0891-7736 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-4781-5
978-1-4673-4781-5
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bojan Spasic150.47
B S S Onggo28214.17