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International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement

PROFES 2005: Product Focused Software Process Improvement pp 545–559Cite as

Tool Support for Personal Software Process

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Improving the software development process is something that many organizations aim for. Many methods have been devised to reach this goal, one of which focuses on the personal level of software development, namely the Personal Software ProcessSM (PSPSM). There is a dire need for automated tool support for PSP, since the method is laborious if used manually. During four university-level courses several tools were studied and later evaluated using feature analysis. As one result, a requirements set for an ideal PSP tool was de vised. The results of the evaluation showed that none of the evaluated tools ful filled the acceptance threshold set for a tool, though one of them can be modified so that it could be used within the setting of an academic PSP course.

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  1. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, P.O.Box 3000, FIN-90014, OULU, Finland

    Jouni Lappalainen

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Fraunhofer Platz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Frank Bomarius

  2. VTT Electronics, P.O. Box 1100, 90571, Oulu, Finland

    Seija Komi-Sirviö

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Lappalainen, J. (2005). Tool Support for Personal Software Process. In: Bomarius, F., Komi-Sirviö, S. (eds) Product Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3547. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11497455_42

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