Towards a Flexible Tool for Supporting Data Collection & Analysis in Personal Software Process (PSP)

Personal Software Process (PSP) ultimately provides software engineers an excellent framework and practice that can help them to improve the quality of their work, by analyzing their performance statistically and helping them to achieve realistic goals set by them. Besides, PSP offers many benefits to software engineers. However, through findings and studies, it is found that the Personal Software Process adoption problem may be caused by the overhead in data collection, manual execution in data analysis, and inflexibility of process definition. This paper presents in details the factors that influence the PSP adoption problem and explains the need for automated tool to support the adoption of PSP. It is believed that with the highly flexible automated tool support, it can give the flexibility to the software engineers to manage their process definition rather than staying freeze. Other than that, it can minimize the overhead during the data collection and data analysis phases. Software engineers should be easily monitors, measure and improve their software development process by using other additional features provided by this tool. Key-Words: Personal Software Process, PSP, Automated Tool, Software Process, Flexible Tool.