The open source movement has grown steadily and matured in recent years, and this
growth has been mirrored by a rise in open source related research. The objective of this …

Abstract Context: Test Driven Development (TDD) is an agile practice that has gained
popularity when it was defined as a fundamental part in eXtreme Programming (XP) …

Context Software process simulation modelling (SPSM) captures the dynamic behaviour
and uncertainty in the software process. Existing literature has conflicting claims about its …

PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to characterize reconciliation among the plan-
driven, agile, and free/open source software models of software development. DESIGN …

A potential solution to the high failure rate in distributed agile development and enhance the
success of projects is through implementing agile enterprise architecture, though the …

CONTEXT: Despite the possible lack of validity when compared with other science areas,
Simulation-Based Studies (SBS) in Software Engineering (SE) have supported the …

Nowadays software projects are still suffering from many problems due to various kinds of
software risks. Software risk management is a crucial part of successful project …

We developed an event-driven simulator of the Kanban process a WIP limited pull system
visualized by the Kanban board. WIP (work in process) represent the capacity in the activity …

We present the application of software process modeling and simulation using an agent-
based approach to a real case study of software maintenance. The original process used …

Code review in practice is often performed change-based, ie using the code changes
belonging to a task to determine which code to review. In previous studies, it was found that …