Abstract Changes and continuous progress in logistics and productive systems make the realization of improvements in decision making necessary. Simulation is a good support tool for this type of decisions because it allows reproducing processes virtually to study their behavior, to analyze the impact of possible changes or to compare different design alternatives without the high cost of scale experiments. Although process simulation is usually focused on industrial processes, over the last two decades, new proposals have emerged to bring simulation techniques into software engineering. This paper describes a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) which returned 8070 papers (published from 2013 to 2019) by a systematic search in 4 digital libraries. After conducting this SLR, 36 Software Process Simulation Modeling (SPSM) works were selected as primary studies and were documented following a specific characterization scheme. This scheme allows characterizing each proposal according to the paradigm used and its technology base as well as its future line of work. Our purpose is to identify trends and directions for future research on SPSM after identifying and studying which proposals in this topic have been defined and the relationships and dependencies between these proposals in the last five years. After finishing this review, it is possible to conclude that SPSM continues to be a topic that is very much addressed by the scientific community, but each contribution has been proposed with particular goals. This review also concludes that Agent-Based Simulation and System Dynamics paradigm is increasing and decreasing, respectively, its trend among SPSM proposals in the last five years. Regarding Discrete-Event Simulation paradigm, it seems that it is strengthening its position among research community in recent years to design new approaches.

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软件过程仿真建模：系统文献综述

摘要 物流和生产系统的变化和不断进步使得决策的改进成为必要。仿真是此类决策的一个很好的支持工具，因为它允许虚拟再现过程以研究其行为、分析可能变化的影响或比较不同的设计方案，而无需进行大规模实验的高成本。尽管过程仿真通​​常侧重于工业过程，但在过去的二十年中，出现了将仿真技术引入软件工程的新建议。本文描述了系统文献综述 (SLR)，通过在 4 个数字图书馆中进行系统搜索，返回了 8070 篇论文（2013 年至 2019 年发表）。在进行了这次单反之后，36 项软件过程仿真建模 (SPSM) 作品被选为主要研究，并按照特定的表征方案进行记录。该方案允许根据所使用的范式及其技术基础以及未来的工作线来表征每个提案。我们的目的是在确定和研究过去五年中已经定义了该主题中的哪些提案以及这些提案之间的关系和依赖关系后，确定了 SPSM 未来研究的趋势和方向。完成本次审查后，可以得出结论，SPSM 仍然是科学界非常关注的一个主题，但每个贡献都具有特定的目标。该评论还得出结论，基于代理的模拟和系统动力学范式正在增加和减少，分别是过去五年在 SPSM 提案中的变化趋势。关于离散事件模拟范式，近年来似乎正在加强其在研究界的地位以设计新方法。