agent-based simulation of software engineering problems?

Question

Has there been any agent-based simulation models built for investigating software engineering processes or problems? (e.g. collaboration in agile vs. traditional warefall, QA defect trends, open source project growth...etc)

Answer 1

In case you didn't find anything, there's some academic work that's related -- for example this by Madey, Freeh and Tynan which discusses OSS development as social network, and this by the same authors who then go on to model it using Swarm