Comparing extreme programming to traditional development for student projects

Authors:
John Noll;Darren C. Atkinson
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA;Department of Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Venue:
XP'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Extreme programming and agile processes in software engineering
Year:
2003

Citing 1
Cited 6

Anchoring the Software Process

IEEE Software

Less Extreme Programming

ACE '04 Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 30
A study into the effects of personality type and methodology on cohesion in software engineering teams

Behaviour & Information Technology
On the measurement of agility in software process

ICSP'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Software process
Measuring fidelity to extreme programming: a psychometric approach

Empirical Software Engineering
Lessons learned from an XP experiment with students: test-first needs more teachings

PROFES'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
An XP experiment with students: setup and problems

PROFES'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

We conducted an experiment attempting to compare XP with a traditional approach to student software engineering projects. We tasked two groups of student teams with producing a simple room reservation system, one group following a traditional development process, the other using XP. We observed little actual difference between the products delivered by either process. However, in our opinion this is due to certain deficiencies in the way XP was realized in this instance, rather than fundamental flaws in the process itself.