New trends in software process modeling (World Scientific Pub. Co., 2006)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Discovering, Modeling, and Re-enacting Open Source Software Development Processes: A Case Study -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Related Work -- 3. Problem Domain -- 4. Field Site and Process Description -- 5. Process Discovery and Modeling -- 6. Process Re-enactment for Deployment, Validation, and Improvement -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 Software Process Dynamics: Modeling, Simulation and Improvement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Software Process Simulation -- 3. Dynamic Integrated Framework for Software Process Improvement: Conceptual Approach -- 4. Framework Structure and Module Architecture -- 5. Integrated Techniques -- 6. Implementation of the Framework -- 7. Example of Usage -- 8. Conclusions and Outlook -- References -- Chapter 3 Software Process Simulation with System Dynamics -- A Tool for Learning and Decision Support -- 1. Learning and Decision Support in the Context of Software Process Management -- 2. Process Simulation as a Tool for Learning and Decision Support &
Over the years, a variety of software process models have been designed to structure, describe and prescribe the software systems construction process. More recently, software process modelling is increasingly dealing with new challenges raised by the tests that the software industry has to face. This book addresses these new trends in software process modeling related to: 1. Processes for open source software; 2. Systems dynamics to model and simulate the software process; 3. Peopleware: the importance of people in the software development and by extension in the software process. One new software development trend is the development of open source projects. As such projects are a recent creation, the process model governing this type of developments is unfamiliar