Extreme Programming in Practice

• Venue: Extreme Programming in Practice
• Year: 2001

From the Book:PREFACE: This book is a case study describing a Web-based software project developed using a development process known as Extreme Programming (XP). The project is real, driven by the needs of a real customer. The artifacts presented in this book are real. The code is real, the user stories are real, and the anecdotes are real. We videotaped all our meetings and development episodes so that we maintained an honest and objective chronicle of the events. We wanted our readers to have as true-to-life an experience as possible. At first we thought we might have to keep the scope of the project artificially small enough to fit into this book. However, it turned out that the size of the first XP release of the project was both useful to our customer and the ideal size for this book. So even the size of the release is real. Before this project, none of us had used XP in its entirety. So this book also chronicles the adoption of XP by a team that is relatively unfamiliar with it. Our goal in writing this book is to help demonstrate how a real XP project works. We have chosen to do this by example, rather than by explanation. The examples are real. They chronicle the thought processes of the team as it struggles with the concepts of XP. You will see us make mistakes and then correct them. You will see us have insights and then find them to be invalid. You will see the ebb and flow of a real development project. This book is written for developers, managers, customers, and anyone else involved in the development of software. We welcomeanyfeedback and can be reached at the following e-mail addresses: James Newkirk–[e-mail] Robert C. Martin–[e-mail]