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 ...

Extreme programming (XP) is a software development approach built around rapid iterations, an emphasis on code writing and working closely with end users to achieve business results. The 12 basic ...

Beck’s ideas in Extreme Programming Explained provided some of the key practices used in the Agile movement, which has revolutionized how software gets built, and today Beck applies his thinking ...

But extreme programming advocates usually also assert that having tests is more or less equal to not needing static typing. So, even though a typed language gives you static typing for free, it ...

"Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Second Edition," lacks the alliterative punch of "Good to Great" or "The Effective Executive." But the book--written for coders--has become a kind ...

PROGRAMMING Job postings for software engineers have acquired yet another acronym to go along with XML and Corba: XP, short for extreme programming. XP isn’t a language; it’s a discipline that ...

– Kent Beck, “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change,” 1st Edition, [Publication date: 2000] These days, some software teams have hundreds of programmers.

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