Leap: a "personal information environment" for software engineers

Abstract

The Leap toolkit is designed to provide Lightweight, Empirical, Anti-measurement dysfunction, and Portable approaches to software developer improvement. Using Leap, software engineers gather and analyze personal data concerning time, size, defects, patterns, and checklists. They create and maintain definitions describing their software development procedures, work products, and project attributes, including document types, defect types, severities, phases, and size definitions. Leap also supports asynchronous software review and facilitates integration of this group-based data with individually collected data. The Leap toolkit provides a "reference model" for a personal information environment to support skill acquisition and improvement for software engineers.