Using the personal software process to motivate good programming practices

Grove, Ralph

doi:10.1145/290320.283046

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“…PSP can be contained in a series of courses related to software engineering. There also exist some experiments that integrated some typical practices of PSP into traditional programming courses [5,6,7]. In all these cases, the PSP practices need to be tailored to meet various objectives of different courses as well as time constraints [4,6].…”

Section: A Personal Software Process In Educationmentioning

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“…There also exist some experiments that integrated some typical practices of PSP into traditional programming courses [5,6,7]. In all these cases, the PSP practices need to be tailored to meet various objectives of different courses as well as time constraints [4,6]. Results from these attempts show that PSP brought some positive impacts to these courses, e.g., it can help solve the problems of poor estimation and planning [4,7], reduce debugging time and improve quality [6], and increase productivity [9].…”

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Improving PSP education by pairing: An empirical study

Rong¹,

Zhang²,

Xie³

et al. 2012

2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

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Handling large-sized classes and maintaining students' involvement are two of the major challenges in Personal Software Process (PSP) education in universities. In order to tackle these two challenges, we adapted and incorporated some typical practices of Pair Programming (PP) into the PSP class at summer school in Software Institute of Nanjing University in 2010, and received positive results, such as higher students' involvement and conformity of process discipline, as well as (half) workload reduction in evaluating assignments. However, the experiment did not confirm the improved performance of the paired students as expected. Based on the experience and feedbacks, we improved this approach in our PSP course in 2011. Accordingly, by analyzing the previous experiment results, we redesigned the experiment with a number of improvements, such as lab environment, evaluation methods and student selection, to further investigate the effects of this approach in PSP education, in particular students' performance. We also introduced several new metrics to enable the comparison analysis of the data collected from both paired students and solo students. The new experiment confirms the value of pairing practices in PSP education. The results show that in PSP class, compared to solo students, paired students can achieve better performance in terms of program quality and exam scores.

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Section: A Personal Software Process In Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Personal Software Process In Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving PSP education by pairing: An empirical study

Rong¹,

Zhang²,

Xie³

et al. 2012

2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

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“…However, the focus is on learning the programming language rather than learning the development process. Some cases in this regard are reported in [5,6,7,8,9,10] , including some positive results of actual performance , e.g., less debugging time and higher quality [5], enhanced understanding of software development process and more accurate estimation [7], improved productivity and estimation [8], smaller code size [9] and less compile time and fewer errors [10]. Whereas the disadvantages of this approach are also obvious.…”

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Delivering PSP course in tertiary education environment: Challenges and solution

Rong¹,

Zhang

Chen³

et al. 2011

2011 24th IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)

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Nowadays, many universities include Personal Software Process (PSP) into their software engineering curriculum. However, delivering PSP course in tertiary education environment always faces at least two challenges. Firstly, in a typical PSP course in education environment, one teacher may teach much more students than a typical PSP class in industry, hence it is extremely difficult to provide evaluation of students' assignments in time. Secondly, participation of students in university often has significantly different characteristics compared to those trainees who had industry experiences.Based on education practice in Software Institute of Nanjing University, this paper proposed an approach to teaching PSP in tertiary education environment with higher efficiency and effectiveness. In this approach, a complete PSP course is delivered and cooperative learning (in pair) is encouraged. Besides, an evaluation team is established to provide timely evaluation on students' submissions and to help students correct their development behaviors. To validate this teaching approach, we conducted an experiment which involved all the freshman students enrolled in software engineering. We compared some process data collected from the submissions of both groups (individual and pair) of students. The results of the experiment show that the load of students' submissions reduced by half while students' interest of learning increased.

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Integrating a software engineering approach into an Ada closed laboratory

Wang¹

1999

Proceedings of the 1999 Annual ACM SIGAda International Conference on Ada

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904) 226-6681 U,S.A, wangm @db,erau.edu ABSTRACT A manual for a closed laboratory incorporating software engineering concepts was developed and implemented for Ada95 during the 1998-1999 ac~emic year. The software engineering concepts were applied during the development and implementation. The purpose was to teach student programmers (and prospective software engineers) disciplined methods for developing software. The findings were: 1. the closed laboratory provided an ideal environment for students to explore, learn and implement software development methods as well as learn the Ada language. 2. The closed laboratory was a major contributor for students to understand the course contents and built a bridge between the class lectures and open lab projects. 3. The closed laboratory helped students to accomplish their open lab projects in a more efficient and professional way by following software development methods. A survey conducted at the end of the semester indicated the success of implementation of software development methods in the Ada closed laboratory. The responses showed that students enjoyed the closed laboratory and considered it an exciting and interesting learning experience.

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Using the personal software process to motivate good programming practices

Cited by 4 publications

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Improving PSP education by pairing: An empirical study

Improving PSP education by pairing: An empirical study

Delivering PSP course in tertiary education environment: Challenges and solution

Integrating a software engineering approach into an Ada closed laboratory

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