Can software engineering students program defect-free?: An educational approach

摘要

The personal software process (PSP) is a training program designed to improve the quality of a software engineer's work. After completing training, a software engineer should be injecting and removing fewer defects, should have improved estimation skills, and should be displaying an improved level of productivity. A controlled experiment is reported on PSP+, a training program enhanced by emphasizing best practices and by involving participants in discussion-based learning. Data for 28 students trained using PSP+ is contrasted with data for 33 students trained using PSP.