Watts Humphrey, noted software expert from US, on Wednesday predicted a bright future for the Indian software industry, but feared that there was likely to be a shortfall of nearly 250,000 software professionals by 2008.
Humphrey called for adoption of personal software processes and team software processes which, he said, were disciplined ways of software development activity.
"Adoption of these processes would increase the productivity of individuals by 20 times," he told reporters in Chennai, adding that this would result in filling up the gap in the demand for the software professionals in future.
Software products should be warranted by their suppliers in the same way as other products and software users needed improved protection. This, he said, was possible by adopting PSP and TSP processes.
He said though many Indian organisations had started adopting PSP and TSP, and getting certified through CMM levels, a more realistic result could be achieved by introducing these software quality processes in the universities in undergraduate or post graduate levels of computer application.
PSP and TSP are the inventions of Humphrey and a Software Quality Institute has been set up in Chennai in his name to impart quality training in software.
