Social perspective of software development methods: the case of the prisoner dilemma and extreme programming

  • Authors:
  • Orit Hazzan;Yael Dubinsky

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Education in Technology & Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology;Department of Computer Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • XP'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

One of the main dilemmas with which software development teams face is how to choose a software development method that suits the team as well as the organization. This article suggests a theory that may help in this process. Specifically, Extreme Programming (XP) is analyzed within the well known framework of the prisoner dilemma. We suggest that such an analysis may explain in what situations XP may fit for implementation and, when it is used, the way it may support software development processes.