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Investigating the Gap between Quantitative and Qualitative/Semi-quantitative Software Process Simulation Models: An Explorative Study

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Software Process Simulation Modeling (SPSM) research has increased in the past two decades. However, most of process models for simulation are quantitative, which require detailed understanding and accurate measurement. As the follow-up work to the previous studies in qualitative/semi-quantitative modeling of software process, this paper aims to investigate the equivalence and gap between quantitative and qualitative/semi-quantitative process modeling, to compare the characteristics and performance of these approaches by modeling and simulating a software evolution process, and further to establish the substantial linkage between them. Following the enhanced model conversion scheme developed in this paper, the reference quantitative continuous model and its counterpart models become comparable. The results present their different capabilities and interesting perspectives.

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  1. Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Ireland

    He Zhang

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  1. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.4 South Fourth Street, Zhong Guan Cun, 100190, Beijing, China

    Qing Wang

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

    Vahid Garousi

  3. Department of Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Bullard Hall, Room 201J, 777 Dyer Road, CA 93943, Monterey, USA

    Raymond Madachy

  4. Simula Research Laboratory, P.O.Box 134, 1325, Lysaker, Norway

    Dietmar Pfahl

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Zhang, H. (2009). Investigating the Gap between Quantitative and Qualitative/Semi-quantitative Software Process Simulation Models: An Explorative Study. In: Wang, Q., Garousi, V., Madachy, R., Pfahl, D. (eds) Trustworthy Software Development Processes. ICSP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01680-6_19

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