Ok, looking for opinions on mr Kent Beck's Extreme Programming concept. Does anyone out there do this in practice? The testing part of it is something I have been doing for a time now but I'm not sure about all of it.
Ok, looking for opinions on mr Kent Beck's Extreme Programming concept. Does anyone out there do this in practice? The testing part of it is something I have been doing for a time now but I'm not sure about all of it.
what is that? is there a website about this practice or anything?Originally posted by FillYourBrain
Ok, looking for opinions on mr Kent Beck's Extreme Programming concept. Does anyone out there do this in practice? The testing part of it is something I have been doing for a time now but I'm not sure about all of it.
www.xprogramming.com for one. It has a lot to do with design under strict testing and the nature of programming teams. It's a phylosophy of team development.
I haven't really done it down to the letter but I know a chief engineer and she claims they kicked out the old school programing model and that they actually writte alot more code that is just as good. I guess it might also depend on what kind of software you are developing and how fast the requirments change.
barjor, does that include the "programming in pairs" thing? I have a hard time envisioning that as an improvement.
Not sure if they do or not. I know I would hate it. I guess the concept is to catch the buggs before they are written and hope that the code will be less sloopy but I would think a company would take a pretty big performance hit if they implemented that. I will ask her next time I see her (not often)
