Simulation of an iterative software development process for an educational repository system

  • Authors:
  • Dimo Boyadzhiev

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Mathematics ad Informatics, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria

  • Venue:
  • ACELAE'11 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on communications, electrical & computer engineering, and 9th WSEAS international conference on Applied electromagnetics, wireless and optical communications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The current paper marks the early stage of the PhD thesis of the first author of the paper. The thesis includes partial creation of an educational repository system, which should become a highly flexible portal that gives access to variety of educational resources. The simulation of the development of the repository system is the main topic of this paper. The human resources needed for the successful end of the project are centric for the simulation which can be quite useful not only for developers of similar systems but for a broader circle of specialists working in the sphere of software development. This is assured by the creation of the several control panels which gives the possibility for changing of the values of the key input parameters of the simulation very easily. The paper starts with a brief overview of the Software Process Simulation (SPS) and a comparison between the different available simulation models. After that a chapter follows which describes the usage of the simulation. Then follows description of the simulation tool and its specifics. After that is given some insight into the building blocks of the simulation via description of one of its main diagrams. At the end, possibilities for future development and results from the simulation will be given.