Personal Software Process: An experiential report

Khajenoori, S.; Hirmanpour, Iraj

doi:10.1007/3-540-58951-1_100

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“…None of the trends were statistically significant, although some were positive (averaging 0.18) indicating an increasing level of productivity over time and others were negative (averaging −0.41) indicating a decreasing level of productivity over time. This general lack of trend, however, is consistent with previous results in [19] where they did not find changes in levels of productivity during all of the PSP exercises.…”

Section: Evaluating the Benefits Of Psp Conceptssupporting

confidence: 92%

“…In its initial incarnation, the PSP has been intended as a classroom exercise course for graduate students or senior-level undergraduates. PSP courses have been introduced in a number of universities, such as Carnegie Mellon University [12], Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University [19],…”

Section: Psp Courses and Their Effectivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One measure of the benefits of using PSP concepts that has been used in the past is defect density [19] [12]. Using this measure, it is assumed that if defect density goes down, then code quality is improving.…”

Section: Evaluating the Benefits Of Psp Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another dependent measure that has been used in previous work on PSP has been the yield [19], which is the percent of defects removed before compilation. The average yield for programs developed without the use of code reviews was 1.65%.…”

Section: Evaluating the Benefits Of Psp Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Implementing concepts from the Personal Software Process in an industrial setting

Emam

Shostak

Madhavji

1996

Proceedings of Software Process 1996

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The Personal Software Process (PSP) has been taught at a number of universities with impressive results. It is also of interest to industry as a means for training their software engineers. While there are published reports on the teaching of PSP in classroom settings (at universities and industry), little systematic study has been conducted on the implementation of PSP in industry. Also, largely anecdotal evidence exists as to its effectiveness with real programming tasks. Effectiveness is measured in terms of the number of trained engineers who actually use PSP in their daily work, and improvements in productivity and defect removal. In this paper we report on a study of the implementation of some PSP concepts in a commercial organization. The empirical enquiry method that we employed was action research. Our results identify the problems that were encountered during the four major activities of an implementation of PSP: planning, training, evaluation, and leveraging. We describe how these problems were addressed, and the general lessons learned from the implementation. An overall transfer of PSP training rate of 46.5% was achieved. For the engineers in our study, those who applied all of the taught PSP concepts on-the-job improved their defect detection capabilities.

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Section: Evaluating the Benefits Of Psp Conceptssupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Psp Courses and Their Effectivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%