UPSP

Contents

• Introduction
• Software Development Using the PSP
• UPSP Documents
• Links
• Download PSPToolkit
• Literature

• make accurate predictions of the effort required to develop software;
• make accurate predictions of the quality of the produced software;
• improve their software development processes;
• improve the quality of the software produced;

There are several PSP versions, which are organised hierarchically. In each version some activities are added and/or refined. The simplest version is called PSP0 (the baseline process).

Please check http://www.sei.cmu.edu:80/activities/psp/WhatPSP.htm for details.

Software Development Using PSP

• scripts that guide you through the development phases;
• forms that help you to carry out certain tasks;
• instructions that help you to fill in/ use the forms;
• standards that help you to evaluate your work.

For our purposes we have chosen to make a few modifications to the original PSP and defined a new version by taking away a few things from PSP1, but added design and code reviews, which are first introduced in PSP2. We will call this new version UPSP (Umeå's version of the PSP ;-)).

UPSP is supported by PSPToolkit, a tool that was developed in Java at our department ([2], [5]). PSPToolkit automates some of the task of UPSP like time and defect logging and the generation of summary forms. Please check the PSPToolkit User Manual for more information on the tool and its usage.

UPSP Documents

• PSPToolkit User Manual
• UPSP Process Script
• UPSP Planning Script
• UPSP Development Script
• UPSP Project Plan Summary Form & Instructions
• UPSP Defect Type Standard not yet available
• UPSP Code Review Checklist not yet available
• UPSP Code Review Script not yet available
• UPSP Design Review Checklist not yet available
• UPSP Design Review Script not yet available
• UPSP C++ Coding Standards & Guidelines not yet available
• UPSP Reporting Script not yet available

• The PSP pages at the SEI (Software Engineering Institute)
• The PSP Resources Page at the University of Karlsruhe
• The LEAP project at the University of Hawaii
• David Rico's PSP pages with links to papers and available tools (among others).
• PSP pages at Systems Modelling Ltd., Ireland.

• PSPToolkit
  Written in Java, works on UNIX (at least Solaris) and Windows (at least 98/NT).
  • PSPToolkit zip archive
  • PSPToolkit User Manual (HTML)
• PSP2000
  Combined desktop/handheld version. Desktop version can be used stand-alone and is written in Java and uses an Access database. The handheld version is written in WABA for the Palm Pilot and supports logging/summary functions only. New projects can only be created in the desktop version. Synchronization utility is provided.
  Go to PSP2000 homepage

1. D. Frankovich: Automated Support for a Custom Personal Software Development Process, Master's thesis, University of Calgary, 1998.
2. J. Forsman: Tool support for PSP, Master's thesis, Umeå University, UMNAD 227.98, Jun 1998.
3. J. Frankovich: The One Person Project Software Process, Master's thesis, University of Calgary, 1998.
4. W. S. Humphrey: A Discipline for Software Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
5. W. S. Humphrey: Introduction to the Personal Software Process, Addison-Wesley, 1997.
6. S. Olofsson: Evaluation of PSP in the Undergraduate Education, Master's thesis, Umeå University, UMNAD 272.99, 1999.
7. A. Östman: Anvandning av "the Personal Software Process" (PSP) i Utbildningen på C-nivå kurser, in Swedish, Master's thesis, Umeå University, UMNAD 273.99, 1999.

• Online Readings on PSP at SEI's distance education site.
• There are several reports on PSP and the LEAP project on the Publications page of the University of Hawaii