Tool Support for Personal Software Process

Improving the software development process is something that many organizations aim for. Many methods have been devised to reach this goal, one of which focuses on the personal level of software development, namely the Personal Software ProcessSM (PSPSM). There is a dire need for automated tool support for PSP, since the method is laborious if used manually. During four university-level courses several tools were studied and later evaluated using feature analysis. As one result, a requirements set for an ideal PSP tool was de vised. The results of the evaluation showed that none of the evaluated tools ful filled the acceptance threshold set for a tool, though one of them can be modified so that it could be used within the setting of an academic PSP course.