Investigating data quality problems in the PSP
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Information and Software Technology
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The Personal Software Process (PSP) has during the last couple ofyears gained attention as a way to individual improvements insoftware development. The PSP is introduced to students and engineersthrough a course, which introduces a personal software developmentprocess. The personal software development process is improvedin steps during the course and a collection of methods is introducedto support the personal development process. The question is,however, how do these methods influence the performance of anindividual engineer? This question has been studied in a studymade at the Software Engineering Institute, and the study hasshown that the methods in the PSP have a positive effect on theperformance of the individuals. There is however a need to replicatethis study to confirm the findings in other settings and withother individuals. This paper describes a replicationof the study made at the Software Engineering Institute. Boththe original study and this replication are made on data reportedfrom the students taking the PSP course. The differences betweenthe two studies are the programming languages used, which heldthe courses, the class sizes, and the experiences of the students.In summary, the results from this replication confirm the resultsin the original study: Size estimation accuracy gets better,the defect density gets lower, the defects are found earlierand that the pre-compile yield gets better during the PSP course.Basically, the two studies show that the methods in the PSP helpengineers to improve their performance.