
332 software Quality assuranCe
Personal and Team Approaches
PSP and TSP to CMM
Personal Software Process
e PSP is a structured software devel-
opment process that is intended to help software engineers to bet-
ter understand and improve their performance by tracking their
predicted and actual development of code. e PSP was created by
Watts Humphrey to apply the underlying principles of the Software
Engineering Institute’s (SEI) CMM to the software development
practices of a single developer. It claims to give software engineers the
process skills necessary to work on a TSP team.*
According to Carnegie Mellon, SEI, PSP document and PSP
provide engineers ...