@inproceedings{e37be0bcc27c467da4e1a1806c6d3f6b,
title = "Personal software process: Classroom experiences from Finland",
abstract = "The personal software process (PSPsm) method was introduced a little less than a decade ago with high expectations. Still, only a limited number of experience reports have been published. This paper reports results from the University of Oulu in Finland, where PSP is a mandatory course for students majoring in software engineering. The results do not indicate a significant improvement in size or effort estimation skills, but the defects found in the unit test phase were decreased by a factor of 4.2. Students however did not plan on using the PSP skills in industry. It is suggested that course assignments are tailored to local context, and a stronger emphasis is placed on the concept and classification of defects. Software industry should in turn develop capabilities for using the PSP trained engineers. These and other implications are discussed.",
author = "Pekka Abrahamsson and Karlheinz Kautz",
year = "2002",
doi = "10.1007/3-540-47984-8_21",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-540-43749-9",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "175--185",
editor = "Jyrki Kontio and Reidar Conradi",
booktitle = "Software Quality - ECSQ 2002",
address = "Germany",
note = "7th European Conference on Software Quality ; Conference date: 09-06-2002 Through 13-06-2002",
}