NDLI: Lessons learned from teaching reflective software engineering using the Leap toolkit

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Moore, C.A.
Copyright Year	2000
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Hawaii Univ., Honolulu, HI, USA (Moore, C.A.)
Abstract	After using and teaching the Personal Software Process (PSP) (W.S. Humphrey, 1995) for over four years, the author came to appreciate the insights and benefits that it produced. However, there were some general problems with the PSP. These problems led him to begin work on an alternative software process improvement method called reflective software engineering. Like the PSP, reflective software engineering is based upon a simple idea: people learn best from their own experience. Reflective software engineering supports experience based improvement in developers' professional activities by helping the developer structure their experience, record it, and analyze it. Unlike the PSP, reflective software engineering is designed around the presence of extensive automated support. The support is provided by a Java based toolkit called "Leap" . The kinds of structured insights and experiences users can record with Leap include: the size of the work product; the time it takes to develop it; the defects that the user or others find in it; the patterns that they discover during the development of it; checklists that they use during or design as a result of the project; estimates for time or size that they generate during the project; and the goals, questions, and measures that the user uses to motivate the data recording.
Starting Page	672
Ending Page	675
File Size	1051591
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581132069
ISSN	02705257
DOI	10.1109/ICSE.2000.870464
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2000-06-09
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Software engineering Software tools Collaborative software Software measurement Java Data analysis Laboratories Computer science education Computer industry Software performance
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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