Introduction to the personal software process /
Personal software process
Watts S. Humphrey
- Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub., ℗♭1997
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 278 pages) : illustrations
- SEI series in software engineering .
- SEI series in software engineering .
Includes bibliographical references and index
The Software Engineer's Job -- What is Software Engineering? -- Why is Good Engineering Important? -- The Personal Software Process -- The Discipline of High-Quality Work -- The Importance of High-Quality Work -- How to Improve the Quality of Your Work -- The Improvement Process -- The Strategy of this Book -- The Management -- The Logic of Time Management -- Understanding How You Spend Time -- The Engineering Notebook -- The Notebook Design -- Engineering Notebook Examples -- Tracking Time -- Why Track Time? -- Recording Time Data -- Tracking Your Time -- Use a Standard Time Recording Log -- Handling Interruptions -- Tracking Completed Tasks -- Keeping Time Logs in the Engineering Notebook -- Hints on Logging Your Time -- Period and Product Planning -- Period and Product Plans -- The Weekly Activity Summary -- Summarizing Weekly Times -- Calculating Period Times and Rates -- Using the Weekly Activity Summary -- Product Planning -- The Need for Product Plans -- Why Product Plans Are Helpful -- What is a Product Plan? -- Product Planning in this Book -- Planning Small Jobs -- Some Definitions -- The Job Number Log -- Some Suggestions on Using the Job Number Log -- Using Product Times and Rates Data -- Product Size -- The Product Planning Process -- Size Measurement -- Some Cautions on Using Size Measures -- Program Size -- Other Size Measures -- Estimating Program Size -- Making a Larger Size Estimate -- Using Size Measures in the Job Number Log -- ManagingYour Time -- Elements of Time Management -- Categorizing Your Activities -- Gather Data on Time Spent by Activity -- Evaluating Your Time Distribution -- Making a Time Budget -- Finding More Time -- Setting Ground Rules -- Prioritizing Your Time -- Managing Your Time Budget -- Suggestions on Managing Variable Time -- Your Time Management Objective -- Managing Commitments -- Defining Commitment -- Responsibly Made Commitments -- Example of a Commitment -- An Example in Industry -- Handling Missed Commitments -- The Importance of Managing Commitments -- The Consequences of Not Managing Commitments -- The Way to Manage Commitments -- Managing Schedules -- The Need for Schedules -- The Gantt Chart -- Making a Project Schedule -- Checkpoints -- Tracking Project Plans -- Tracking Earned Value -- The Project Plan -- The Need for Project Plans -- The Project Plan Summary -- The Summary -- Program Size -- Time in Phase -- Estimating Accuracy -- The Software Development Process -- Why We Use Processes -- Some Definitions -- The Process Script -- Checkpoints and Phases -- The Updated Project Plan Summary Form -- A Planning Example -- An Example of To Date Calculations -- Defects -- What is Software Quality? -- Defects and Quality -- What are Defects? -- Defects versus Bugs -- Defect Types -- Understanding Defects -- The Defect Recording Log -- Counting Defects -- Using the Defect Recording Log -- The Updated PSP Process -- Finding Defects -- A Personal Commitment to Quality -- The Steps in Finding Defects -- Ways to Find and Fix Defects -- Code Reviews -- Why Find Defects Early? -- The Costs of Finding and Fixing Defects -- Using Reviews to Find Defects -- Reviewing Before Compiling -- Data on Compile and Test Defects -- The Updated PSP Project Plan Summary Form -- Other Kinds of Reviews -- The Code Review Checklist -- Why Do Checklists Help? -- An Example of a Code Review Checklist -- Using a Code Review Checklist -- Building a Personal Checklist -- Improving the Checklist -- Coding Standards -- Projecting Defects -- Defect Rates -- Using Defect Data -- Defect Density -- Projecting Defect Rates -- Defect Estimation -- The Updated Project Plan Summary Form and Example -- Entering the Actual Data -- The Economics of Defect Removal -- The Need for Quality Work -- The Defect-Removal Problem -- Defect-Removal Time -- Defect-Injection and -Removal Experience -- Defect-Removal Savings -- Calculating Defects /Hour on the PSP Project Plan Summary -- Calculating Yield on the Project Plan Summary -- Improving Defect-Removal Rates -- Improving Defect-Injection Rates -- Design Defects -- The Nature of Design Defects -- Identifying Design Defects -- What is Design? -- The Design Process -- The Causes of Design Defects -- The Impact of Design Defects -- Design Representation -- Product Quality -- Quality Comes First -- Testing -- The Filter View of Testing -- The Benefits of Careful Work -- Calculating Yield Values -- Estimating the Ultimate Yield -- The Benefits of 100% Process Yield -- Yield Experience -- Prototyping -- Process Quality -- Process Measures -- The Defect-Removal Paradox -- A Defect-Removal Strategy -- Cost of Quality -- Calculating the Cost of Quality -- The Appraisal Failure Ratio -- Improving Review Rates -- Calculating the True Cost of Quality -- A Personal Commitment to Quality -- The Importance of Quality -- The Increasing Risks of Poor Quality -- Making a Commitment to Quality -- Your Personal Objectives -- The Rewards of Accomplishment 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Available to OhioLINK libraries
In this practical introduction to the basic disciplines of effective software engineering, Watts Humphrey, well-known author of the influential book, Managing the Software Process, brings his Personal Software Process to a wide audience of students and professional programmers. This hands-on book provides practical exercises readers can use to improve their time-management and quality-assurance practices, skills that will help them do competent professional work and better apply their programming expertise for greater success in their careers
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