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Discipline for Software Engineering, A
- By Watts S. Humphrey
- Published Dec 31, 1994 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the SEI Series in Software Engineering series.
- Copyright 1995
- Dimensions: 6-3/8x9-1/4
- Pages: 816
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-201-54610-8
- ISBN-13: 978-0-201-54610-1
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Known as “the father of software quality,” Watts S. Humphrey is the author of numerous influential books on the software-development process and software process improvement. Humphrey is a fellow of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded the Software Process Program and provided the vision and early leadership for the original Capability Maturity Model (CMM). He also is the creator of the Personal Software Process (PSP) and Team Software Process (TSP). Recently, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology—the highest honor given by the president of the United States to America's leading innovators.
This new work from Watts Humphrey lays the foundation for a disciplined approach to software engineering. In his previous book, Humphrey developed methods for managing an organization's software process. These methods, now commonly practiced in industry, provide to programmers and managers specific steps they can take to evaluate and to improve their software development and software maintenance capabilities. In Humphrey's new book, he scales those methods down to a more personal level, helping software engineers working on relatively small-scale programs to develop the skills and the habits they will need later in their professional life to plan, track, and analyze large and complex software projects more carefully and more successfully.
Clear examples and samples drawn from industry enhance the practical focus of the book. Exercises in the form of projects give readers the opportunity to practice process management as they learn it, a comprehensive instructor's set includes notes on teaching the course, overhead masters, modifiable assignment kits in Word, and a statistical support package in the form of Excel spreadsheets for the analysis of individual and class data.
Features- Presents concepts and methods for a disciplined software engineering process
- Scales down industrial practices for planning, tracking, analysis, and defect management to for the needs of small-scale program development
- Shows how small project disciplines provide a solid base for larger projects
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
A great complementary reference for XP - also CMM L-4 & 5, By
This review is from: A Discipline for Software Engineering (Hardcover)
This book's title contains two key words that are woefully missing from most development projects: "discipline" and "engineering". With this book Mr. Humphrey introduced the personal software process (PSP), which subsequently spawned the team software process (TSP). Although the material is over 6 years old and does not seem to have gained wide acceptance in commercial development and project environments, it provides a roadmap to effectively integrating the increasingly popular extreme programming (XP)approach that was developed by Kent Beck.How does PSP align to XP? Both approaches focus heavily on project planning and estimating, and controlling quality, cost and schedule. Both approaches also use metrics as a baseline and past performance to predict future productivity and quality during the planning and estimation phases of new projects. Moreover, both approaches impose a rigorous discipline at a low level in the development process - PSP at the... Read more
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Explains the personal software process (PSP), By
This review is from: A Discipline for Software Engineering (Hardcover)
Analyze your personal software development performance as a self-improvement initiative. Categorize time in phases and record the amount of time spent on each assigned task in each phase. Develop historical databases of size and productivity as illustrated by the project-planning framework (Fig 5.1). Compare initial estimates of size, effort, and schedule versus actual size, effort, and schedule (management metrics). Track defects, classify defects, identify problem components, and establish reliability measurements (product metrics). Presents the goal-question-metric, design and code reviews, cost-of-quality measures, unit testing, defect prevention strategies, and verification process. Includes a set of exercises that put the PSP program into practice. The appendix contains an excellent section on statistical techniques and a complete set of forms and instructions for implementing the various PSP measurement programs. Some questionable practices: the author insists on counting...
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92 of 115 people found the following review helpful
The apotheosis of meaningless measurement,
By A Customer
This review is from: A Discipline for Software Engineering (Hardcover)
Sometimes I question the need for philosophy, then a book like this comes along and I remember why philosophy is important. Philosophers do us the service of carefully analyzing premises, claims, and all the varied artifices of thought. Philosophers notice the clouds beneath the castle. Watts Humphrey's book is in need of a philosophical overhaul. It is a fine expression of 19th-century ideas about scientific management and the nature of human cognition, but takes little note of modern revelations about how human minds work, and how software design happens. The book is an ode to measurement. Humphrey doesn't justify or explain his measurement theory, though. He seems more intent on telling us what to do than on helping us ask questions like "What do these numbers mean?" He proposes ways to measure quality, but not ways to understand goodness; ways to measure productivity, but not ways to understand productivity in relation to our ambitions. Reflection,... Read more |
Table of Contents
1. The Personal Process Strategy.
2. The Baseline Personal Process.
3. Planning I: The Planning Process.
4. Planning II: Measuring Software Size.
5. Planning III: Estimating Software Size.
6. Planning IV: Planning.
7. Measurement In The Personal Software Process.
8. Design and Code Reviews.
9. Software Quality Management.
10. Software Design.
11. Scaling Up The Personal Software Process.
12. Design Verification.
13. Defining the Software Process.
14. Using the Personal Software Process.
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