The Personal Software Process

Author

Humphrey, Watts S.

Author_Institution

Software Eng. Inst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

5-8 Nov 1997

Abstract

Summary form only given. The Personal Software Process (PSP)^TM promises to be a powerful tool for software educators. The author describes the PSP and some results achieved by using it. The author also discusses the principles behind the PSP and the reasons why it is effective as a teaching instrument. The author suggests some implications of the PSP for software education. The principal PSP objective is to demonstrate the benefits of using a defined process, planning and tracking development work, measuring engineering performance, and managing work quality. The PSP is introduced with a family of processes and a set of exercises. By following the processes to do the ten exercises, engineers learn the methods and they see from their own data how the methods work for them

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; Personal Software Process; development work planning; development work tracking; engineering performance measurement; software education; software educators; teaching instrument; work quality management; Acoustical engineering; Design engineering; Education; Engineering management; Instruments; Power engineering and energy; Process planning; Quality management; Samarium; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997. 27th Annual Conference. Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change. Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4086-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1997.644799

Filename

644799