© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 Jasmine: A PSP Supporting Tool

Abstract. The PSP (Personal Software Process) was developed to help devel-opers make high-quality products through improving their personal software development processes. With consistent measurement and analysis activities that the PSP suggests, developers can identify process deficiencies and make a reliable estimate on effort and quality. However, due to the high-overhead and context-switching problem of manual data recording, developers have difficul-ties to collect reliable data, which can lead to wrong analysis results. Also, it is very inconvenient to use the paper-based process guide of the PSP in navigating its process information and difficult to attach additional process-related infor-mation to the process guide. In this paper, we describe a PSP supporting tool that we have developed to deal with these problems. The tool provides auto-mated data collection and analysis to help acquire reliable data and identify process deficiencies. It also provides an EPG (Electronic Process Guide) in or-der to provide easy access and navigation of the PSP process information, which is integrated with an ER (Experience Repository) to allow developers to store development experiences