Reflective Software Engineering with the Leap toolkit

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
   • Software development on Internet Time
   • Who can benefit from reflective software engineering?
   • Reflective and "Traditional" Software Engineering
   • Reflective Software Engineering and the PSP
   • Seven habits of highly effective hackers
   • Organization of the book
2. Installation and Invocation
   • Downloading the system
   • Contents of the distribution
   • Default invocation
   • Batch file invocation
     • The anatomy of a Leap batch file
     • Creating customized batch files
     • The "Out of Environment Space" problem
   • Installation on "Other" Platforms
   • The user preferences facility
   • Extensions
3. Introduction to time recording
   • Motivation for time recording
   • Io: A "real-time" time recording tool
     • Simple time interval recording
     • Recording interruptions
     • Providing contextual information: project, document type, phase
   • Naia: Effort entry editing and analysis
     • Editing effort data
     • Analyzing effort data
   • Reflecting upon time data
4. Introduction to size measurement
   • Motivation for size measurement
   • Useful characteristics of size measures
     • Hierarchical size measures
     • Multiple size measures
     • Incremental size measurement
   • Size measurement in Leap using Aama, Iole and Ilio
     • Simple size measurement
     • Interlude: How Leap assigns the project field of size entries
     • Single, hierarchical size measurement
     • Multiple, hierarchical size measurement
     • Incremental, hierarchical size measurement
   • Hints for size measurement
   • Diagnosing problems in assigning size entries to projects
5. Generic Table Functionality
   • Pop-Up menus
   • Sorting
   • Filtering
   • Hiding and showing columns and rows
   • The generic table button bar
   • The generic table File menu
   • The generic table Analyses menu
   • Resizing rows and columns
6. Managing Leap Data
   • Motivation
   • Organizing your Leap files
     • All in one
     • Definitions and data
     • Functional organization
     • Rolling organization
     • Projects-only mixin
     • Project export mixin
     • Tips for Leap data file management
   • The "semantics" of saving
     • Save
     • Save Tables
     • Export Tables
   • Loading and saving "duplicate" data
7. Introduction to Software Review using Leap
   • Why do review?
   • Overview of Leap-based review
   • Phase 1: Planning
     • Creating the review workspace
     • Setting up review_defs.leap
     • Setting up review_prefs.leap
     • Setting up the RunReview script
   • Phase 2: Orientation
     • An orientation email
   • Phase 3: Preparation
     • Recording defects
     • Distributing defects
   • Phase 4: Meeting/Consolidation
   • Phase 5: Rework
   • Phase 6: Postmortem
     • Forms of postmortem analysis
8. Defmacs: Support for in-process, Emacs-based defect recording
   • Motivation for Defmacs
   • Downloading Defmacs
   • Configuring Emacs for Defmacs
     • Loading the Defmacs executable
     • Loading the Leap table files
     • Setting the DRL directory
     • Binding keystrokes and menus
     • Setting visible fields
     • Setting up compilation mode
     • A sample .emacs file..
   • Using Defmacs
     • Opening a DRL file
     • Adding a defect
     • Defmacs buffer commands
     • Tracking fix times
     • Recording compiler defects
9. Frequently Noticed Problems
10. The Leap file format specification
    • Motivation for the Leap file format
    • Generic Leap file format syntax
      • Syntax restrictions
      • Table version numbers
    • Table format specifications
      • DRL (defects)
      • TRL (time)
      • PRJ (projects)
      • DCT (doctypes)
      • DFT (defect types)
      • SEV (severities)
      • DID (document IDs)
      • PHS (phases)
      • SDT (size definitions)
      • SIZ (size entries)