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Software process simulation modeling has become an increasingly active research area for managing and improving software development processes since its introduction in the last two decades. Hybrid process simulation models have attracted interest as a possibility to avoid the limitations of applying single modeling method, and more realistically capture complex real-world software processes. This paper presents a hybrid process modeling scheme to build an integrated software process model. It focuses on the particular portion of software process by using different techniques on separate but interconnected phases, while still allows for the integrity of modeling development process. We developed a hybrid simulation model of the test-and-fix process of incremental software development. Results conclude that this approach can support the investigation of portions of software process at different granularity levels simultaneously. It also avoids the limitation caused by incomplete process detail of some phases, and may help reduce the effort of building a hybrid simulation model.
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Zhang, H., Jeffery, R., Zhu, L. (2008). Hybrid Modeling of Test-and-Fix Processes in Incremental Development. In: Wang, Q., Pfahl, D., Raffo, D.M. (eds) Making Globally Distributed Software Development a Success Story. ICSP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79588-9_29
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