A Discipline for Software EngineeringThis new work from Watts Humphrey, author of the influential book, Managing the Software Process, broadens his orderly view of software process management, and lays the foundation for a disciplined approach to software engineering. In his earlier book, the author developed concrete methods for managing software development and maintenance. These methods, now commonly practiced in industry, provide programmers and managers with specific steps they can take to evaluate and improve their software capabilities. In this new book, Humphrey scales those methods down to a personal level, helping software engineers develop the skills and habits needed to plan, track, and analyze large, complex projects. Humphrey and others have used material from this book to train professionals and students around the world in a projects-oriented software engineering course. First establishing the need for discipline in software engineering, and the benefits to practitioners of learning how to manage their personal software process, Humphrey then develops a model that they can use to monitor, test, and improve their work. Examples drawn from industry enhance the practical focus of the book, while project exercises give readers the opportunity to practice software process management as they learn it. Features: presents concepts and methods for a disciplined software engineering process; scales down industrial practices for planning, tracking, analysis, and defect management to fit the needs of small-scale program development; and shows how small project disciplines provide a solid base for larger projects. |
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PREFACE | 1 |
THE BASELINE PERSONAL PROCESS | 29 |
PLANNING I THE PLANNING PROCESS | 57 |
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Actual To Date Appendix B₁ calculate changed LOC Chapter checklist CLEARSPACES code review complete correlation costs criteria database Date Number Defect Recording Log defect removal defect type defects found defects injected deleted described Design Review earned value EmptySet ensure enter error example FIGURE First&Only Fix Defect Fix Time Fix function gather goals high-level design historical data Humphrey implementation Input inspection Karnaugh map KLOC linear regression ListPosition ListState logic measure method modified normal distribution number of defects Object Pascal parameters Pareto distribution percent Personal Software Process phase postmortem prediction interval problem procedure Program Number Project Plan Summary proxy PSP2 PSP3 PSPO range requirements reuse schedule Script shown in Fig shown in Table small programs Software Engineering Software Engineering Economics software process Specification Template standard deviation step strategy Student task tion track unit test verification yield