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. Kent Beck is a consultant with Daedalos Consulting, Switzerland. He can be contacted at [email protected]. "In 1914 the nations of Europe were bound so tightly in bonds of trade and culture that war ...

Programmer Kent Beck developed the extreme programming methodology five years ago while serving as the project leader on Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation, a long-term project to rewrite ...

The name used to describe that methodology varies. Some call it "agile programming." Most call it "extreme programming," or "XP" for short. Whatever the name, the methodology's tenets boil down to ...

But now when Windholtz creates code, he does so with a comrade at his side--one of the tenets of the software development methodology called Extreme Programming. "Sometimes if you're coding alone ...

When a development team decides to migrate to extreme programming (XP), the natural tendency is to focus on the programming practices, including unit testing, continuous integration, refactoring ...