Personal Software Process: a user´s perspective

Author

Ceberio-Verghese, Anna Ch

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Embry-Riddle Aeronaut. Univ., Daytona Beach, FL, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

21-24 Apr 1996

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

65

Abstract

The paper discusses briefly what the Personal Software Process (PSP) entails from the point of view of a student that went through the requirements of the PSP course. The author completed this course as part of the requirements of the Master of Software Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The paper gives some background about the university and the role of the PSP in the mentioned masters program. It describes what the PSP course entails from a user´s point of view. The results achieved by the author in terms of estimation, productivity, and quality are discussed. The paper also states the set of goals determined by the author at the end of the course. Finally, it concludes with the focal points that the author considers can be learned by going through the PSP course

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; software quality; software reliability; teaching; Master of Software Engineering; PSP course; Personal Software Process; scientific principles; software quality; standard engineering; structured framework; user perspective; Capability maturity model; Computer science; Coordinate measuring machines; Productivity; Programming profession; Software development management; Software engineering; Software quality; Software standards; Standards development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education, 1996. Proceedings., Ninth Conference on

Conference_Location

Daytona Beach, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEE.1996.491362

Filename

491362