[SystemSafety] Analysis of some Work Breakdown Structure projects

[Martyn Thomas]

I didn't know that.

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.

Martyn

On 09/06/2021 18:52, Roderick Chapman wrote:
> On 09/06/2021 10:05, Martyn Thomas wrote:
>> 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 
>> p132
>
> 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.
>
> I took the later version of the course (only 8 programs, so people 
> could go home early on the Fridays...) in 2004.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> One good piece of news: the PSP training material is now freely 
> available, so you can try it all yourself if you feel inclined.
>
> All the best,
>
>  Rod
>
>
>
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