随着软件工程专业的发展和成熟，个体软件过程(PSP)得到了广泛认可和应用实践。本书系统描述了个体软件过程(PSP)，并且解释了按可预测的进度交付优良产品的实践和方法。读者将会了解一个规范的软件工程过程所包括的具体内容。
　　本书通过14章分步介绍了PSP方法。第1章描述了PSP整体原理及介绍策略。第2章和第3章解释了如何遵循一个定义的过程和怎样收集和使用用于管理程序开发作业的数据。第4至第7章介绍了估算和计划。第8章至第12章阐述了质量管理和设计。第13章描述了如何将PSP方法用于各种工作。第14章描述如何将PSP方法用于TSP过程，以及TSP指导经过PSP训练的软件工程师怎样在一个项目中使用这些方法。
　　本书实用性与可读性较强，可作为高等学校计算机软件工程课程的教材，也可作为工程技术人员自学个体软件过程的教材，同时也是进行软件过程改善和能力成熟度模型SW-CMM评估的重要参考资料。此书作为SEI 的PSP Body of Knowledge(BOK)的学习指导教材，为掌握PSP知识体提供必要的帮助。本书还可供软件过程改进人员、软件开发项目经理、程序员阅读参考。

Chapter 1　The Personal Process Strategy　1
1.1　The PSP's Purpose　3
1.2　The Logic for a Software Engineering Discipline　4
1.3　Using Disciplined Development Practices　6
1.4　Operational Processes　6
1.5　Defining and Using a Personal Process　7
1.6　Learning to Use a Personal Process　8
1.7　Preparing for the Team Software Process　9
1.8　Summary　9
Reference　10

Chapter 2　The Baseline Personal Process　11
2.1　What Is a Process?　12
2.2　Defining Your Own Process　13
2.3　Baseline Process Contents　14
2.4　Why Forms Are Helpful　16
2.5　The PSP Process Elements　17
2.6　The PSP0 Process　18
2.7　PSP0 Measures　20
2.8　Time Recording　21
2.9　Defect Recording　24
2.10　The PSP0 Project Plan Summary　30
2.11　The Compile Phase　31
2.12　Incremental Development　32
2.13　PSP Tool Support　34
2.14　Summary　34
2.15　Exercises　34

Chapter 3　Measuring Software Size　35
3.1　Size Measures　35
3.2　Establishing a Database Counting Standard　40
3.3　Establishing a Line-of-Code Counting Standard　40
3.4　Size Accounting　42
3.5　Using Size Data　45
3.6　Calculating Productivity　47
3.7　Size Counters　48
3.8　Other Size Measures　53
3.9　Summary　54
3.10　Exercises　54
References　55

Chapter 4　Planning　57
4.1　The Planning Process　58
4.2　Why Make Plans?　59
4.3　What Is a Plan?　60
4.4　The Contents of a Software Plan　60
4.5　Planning a Software Project　62
4.6　The Conceptual Design　63
4.7　Plan Quality　65
4.8　Planning Issues　65
4.9　Summary　66
Reference　67

Chapter 5　Software Estimating　69
5.1　Size Estimating Principles　69
5.2　The Conceptual Design　70
5.3　Proxy-Based Estimating　71
5.4　Using Proxies in Estimating　75
5.5　Producing the Relative-Size Table　78
5.6　Estimating Considerations　80
5.7　Summary　84

Chapter 6　The PROBE Estimating Method　85
6.1　Estimating from Data　85
6.2　Proxy-Based Estimating　87
6.3　Estimating with Limited Data　95
6.4　An Estimating Example　100
6.5　Estimating Nonprogramming Tasks　102
6.6　Considerations in Using PROBE　105
6.7　Summary　108
6.8　Exercises　108

Chapter 7　Software Planning　109
7.1　Plan Requirements　109
7.2　Project and Period Plans　111
7.3　Producing the Schedule　113
7.4　Making the Schedule　115
7.5　Earned Value　119
7.6　An Earned Value Example　120
7.7　Comments on the EV Example　123
7.8　Estimating Accuracy　125
7.9　The Prediction Interval　126
7.10　Alerting Management to Changes　128
7.11　Planning Considerations　129
7.12　Summary　131
7.13　Exercises　132
References　132

Chapter 8　Software Quality　133
8.1　The PSP Quality Strategy　135
8.2　What Is Software Quality?　135
8.3　The Economics of Software Quality　136
8.4　Defect Types　141
8.5　Personal Quality Practices　142
8.6　Quality Measures　143
8.7　Quality Management　153
8.8　Personal Quality Management　154
8.9　Managing Product Quality　156
8.10　PSP Improvement Practices　157
8.11　Defect Prevention　158
8.12　Summary　160
References　161

Chapter 9　Design and Code Reviews　163
9.1　What Are Reviews?　164
9.2　Why Review Programs?　164
9.3　Review Principles　168
9.4　The PSP Code Review Process　173
9.5　The Code Review Checklist　176
9.6　Design Reviews　181
9.7　Design Review Principles　183
9.8　Review Measures　187
9.9　Review Issues　194
9.10　Summary　201
9.11　Exercises　202
References　202

Chapter 10　Software Design　203
10.1　What Is Design?　204
10.2　Why Design?　206
10.3　The Design Process　207
10.4　Design Levels　210
10.5　Design and Development Strategies　216
10.6　Design Quality　220
10.7　Summary　223
References　224

Chapter 11　The PSP Design Templates　225
11.1　Design Representation　226
11.2　The Design Templates　229
11.3　The Operational Specification Template (OST)　230
11.4　The Functional Specification Template (FST)　233
11.5　The State Specification Template (SST)　236
11.6　The Logic Specification Template (LST)　240
11.7　A State-Machine Design Example　241
11.8　Using the PSP Design Templates　246
11.9　Using the Design Templates in Large-Scale Design　248
11.10　Summary　250
11.11　Exercises　250
References　250

Chapter 12　Design Verification　253
12.1　Why Verify Programs?　254
12.2　Design Standards　257
12.3　Execution-Table Verification　258
12.4　Trace-Table Verification　262
12.5　Verifying State Machines　265
12.6　Loop Verification　271
12.7　Other Analytical Verification Methods　277
12.8　Verification Considerations　280
12.9　Summary　284
12.10　Exercises　284
References　285

Chapter 13　Process Extensions　287
13.1　Customizing the Development Process　289
13.2　Why Define a Process?　290
13.3　The PSP Process Strategy　291
13.4　Defining a Process　291
13.5　Process Evolution　294
13.6　Example Processes　298
13.7　Process Development Considerations　306
13.8　Summary　307
13.9　Exercises　308
References　308

Chapter 14　Using the Personal Software Process　309
14.1　Development Challenges　309
14.2　The Team Software Process (TSP)　313
14.3　The Logic of the TSP　314
14.4　Teambuilding　314
14.5　The TSP Launch Process　316
14.6　The TSP Coach　317
14.7　Managing Your Own Project　318
14.8　TSP Results　322
14.9　The Rewards of Teamwork　322
14.10　The TSP Team of One　323
14.11　Your Future in Software Engineering　326
References　327

Index　329
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