Shapiro-not because of the economy, but because of the slapdash way it wrote software before adopting a methodology known as “extreme programming ... a six-month cycle for developing new ...

Consider some of the tenets of a new programming approach: keep the code simple, review it frequently, test early and often, and work a 40-hour week. Programmer Kent Beck developed extreme ...

You can have a very incremental and extremely fast recompilation cycle ... and the extreme programming authors have been right to teach us to bring testing early in the process.