Title :
Software Process Simulation Based on Mining Software Repositories
Author :
Honsel, Verena ; Honsel, Daniel ; Grabowski, Jens
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany
Abstract :
Software development processes and their quality depend on many evolutionary factors, such as project size and collaboration of the development team, and development strategies. For project managers it would be valuable to test the interplay of different possible future scenarios in advance, before making decisions about the further process. Our aim is to build such a tool based on agent-based simulation. In this paper, we present our simulation model and our approach in mining software repositories as input for it. The simulation model focuses on system growth, bugs lifetime and developer activity. The detection of patterns related to these topics allows us to estimate adequate simulation parameters close to reality. We evaluate this approach by comparing empirical and simulated data.
Keywords :
data mining; decision making; project management; software development management; software maintenance; software quality; agent-based simulation; bug lifetime; decision making; developer activity; development strategies; development team collaboration; evolutionary factors; mining software repositories; pattern detection; project management; project size; simulation parameters; software development process; software process simulation; software quality; system growth; Adaptation models; Collaboration; Computer bugs; Data mining; Data models; Open source software; Agent-Based Simulation; Mining Software Repositories; Software Evolution;
Conference_Titel :
Data Mining Workshop (ICDMW), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenzhen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4275-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICDMW.2014.35