Less Extreme Programming

  • Authors:
  • James Noble;Stuart Marshall;Stephen Marshall;Robert Biddle

  • Affiliations:
  • Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • ACE '04 Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 30
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Industrial practice in software engineering has developed in recent years from rigid heavyweight document-based development techniques, such as the Rational Unified Process, to incorporate more agile, iterative, communication-centric approaches such as Extreme Programming. This shift has created a need for a similar shift in software engineering education. We report our experience of incorporating an Extreme Programming option into an existing document-centric software project course. While students taking the option were generally positive about Extreme Programming, the projects' external clients had a more mixed experience.