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<p>I didn't know that.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Martyn</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/06/2021 18:52, Roderick Chapman
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/06/2021 10:05, Martyn Thomas
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cite="mid:f9d8f703-b1be-81bc-468d-206235e79a5e@72f.org">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
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<p><font size="+1">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.</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">I took the later version of the course (only 8
programs, so people could go home early on the Fridays...) in
2004.</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">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.</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">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.<br>
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<p><font size="+1">One good piece of news: the PSP training
material is now freely available, so you can try it all
yourself if you feel inclined.</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">All the best,</font></p>
<p><font size="+1"> Rod</font></p>
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