PSPm na Melhoria da Competência Pessoal no Desenvolvimento de Software

Plan-driven software development processes can be enhanced with techniques taken from the Agile Methods area. This would allow an increase in the range of applications to which those methods can be successfully applied. This paper presents and discusses the addition of TDD-Test Driven Development techniques to the PSP-Personal Software Process, thus generating a hybrid personal process so called PSPm (PSP-modified). PSPm was taught and tested in the classroom, by Computer Science students enrolled in Software Engineering classes. Results were then compared to previous results obtained by applying pure PSP to similar groups of students in former years. PSPm promoted a decrease in the amount of errors made by the students and in the time spent in the other PSP phases.