[news.eclipse.technology] Project Idea: Automated Software Productivity

[Carl Stottlemyer <carl.stottlemyer@xxxxxxxx>]

I have investigated using a few tools that assist in the automation of 
the Personal Software Process (PSP) and every tool I have used has too 
much overhead to make it useful.

I think that integrating many aspects of the PSP into an IDE would 
eliminate most of the overhead of using the PSP and would give software 
developers very useful information they can use to improve their 
productivity.

For example: Some of the aspects of PSP that are time consuming that 
could be automated by the IDE are:

1.  Logging of time spent on project:  The IDE could record the time 
spent developing each class of a project.
2.  Error/Defect tracking: The IDE automatically enters compile time 
errors, failed unit test errors and also has a way of letting the user 
indicate the time spent fixing an error.
3.  Software measurements:  The IDE automatically keeps track of 
software measurements for entire project and daily development.
4.  Planning:  The user can make estimations of size and the IDE will 
let the user know how close they are to the actual measurement.
5.  Reports on LOC/hour, amount of time fixing defects vs total project 
time.
6.  Multiple project statistics let user know how much their 
productivity and estimation has improved.

I am wondering what everyone thinks about this as a project idea.