[SystemSafety] Analysis of some Work Breakdown Structure projects
Martyn Thomas
martyn at 72f.org
Wed Jun 9 20:28:40 CEST 2021
I didn't know that.
It's a pity the SEI doesn't analyse the data from their courses,
aggregated, and publish it. There's very little published data about
fault injection or delivered fault density.
Martyn
On 09/06/2021 18:52, Roderick Chapman wrote:
> On 09/06/2021 10:05, Martyn Thomas wrote:
>> The SEI data I referred to was from a study carried out by Watts
>> Humphrey, of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie-Mellon
>> University, analysed the fault density of more than 8000 programs
>> written by 810 industrial software developers.
>> resources.sei.cmu.edu/asset_files/SpecialReport/2009_003_001_15035.pdf
>> p132
>
> That's the data from the original version of the PSP training course.
> The course involves writing 10 small-ish programs, hence "over 8000"
> programs for 810 developers.
>
> I took the later version of the course (only 8 programs, so people
> could go home early on the Fridays...) in 2004.
>
> SEI has all the data for those people, but I'm not sure if it's
> significant, since it's just for individual people writing relatively
> small programs, so no scale or team effects.
>
> I asked Watts if they'd mine and publish the data-set, but SEI were
> never inclined to do so... one of the things about PSP is that
> individuals' personal data stays that way. I have data for about 12
> people (I was the Instructor after all) taking the course at Altran UK
> in about 2010/11.
>
> One good piece of news: the PSP training material is now freely
> available, so you can try it all yourself if you feel inclined.
>
> All the best,
>
> Rod
>
>
>
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