A Personal Commitment to Software Quality

Author: sei.cmu.edu | Published: 12th Aug 2005 | Visited: 285 times | Add Comment
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Much of the following paper is an excerpt from one chapter of the book, A Discipline for software Engineering (Addison Wesley) by the author. This textbook describes the personal software process (PSP) and provides a step-by-step program for its introduction. The book has been used as a text in six university graduate courses and is being used by several software organizations to help them introduce PSP methods. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is offering teach-the-teachers training courses for industrial groups interested in introducing the PSP to their organizations.

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