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Personal Software Process: An experiential report

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Software Engineering Education (CSEE 1995)

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Abstract

This paper offers a reflective examination of our experiences teaching a pilot session of the Personal Software Process (PSP) in a graduate software engineering course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). PSP, a new paradigm proposed by Watts Humphrey, is based on a disciplined approach to the software development process. It provides a framework for the individual developer to assess and to improve his/her development process.

The paper begins with an overview of the Personal Software Process paradigm, provides a brief description of the MSE curriculum structure within which the PSP course was taught, and discusses the placement of the PSP session within this structure. Experiential results and feedback from both the instructors' and students' perspective are presented. In conclusion, the relevance of the PSP's principles and concepts to a software engineering curriculum is argued. Also alluded to are future plans for integrating software process knowledge and skills across the curriculum.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 32114, Daytona Beach, Florida

    Soheil Khajenoori & Iraj Hirmanpour

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  1. Soheil Khajenoori
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Rosalind L. Ibrahim

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Khajenoori, S., Hirmanpour, I. (1995). Personal Software Process: An experiential report. In: Ibrahim, R.L. (eds) Software Engineering Education. CSEE 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 895. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58951-1_100

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