What is extreme programming?
Jim Gray
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From: "Greg Woodhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Hardhats-members] Open source, Vista, and XP (and I don't mean
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A very general question: Is Extreme Programming (XP) an appropriate
model for open source? With all built in tests, pair programming, and
all that, is it even workable? I have never tried consciously to adopt
XP as a practice, but many of the principles and practices in XP
resonate well with how I like to work as a developer (and how I think I
work best). Big open source projects seem hard to fit into this model
because of sheer scale and because of the (typically) geographically
diverse nature of the development team. On the other hand, I am struck
by the lack of attention paid to analysis and design on this list. I
also wonder if this is an entirely bad thing -- While I don't believe
good software can just organically "evolve" with no clear understanding
(on the part of the developers) of what it is supposed to do, I also
believe that design is best thought of as an ongoing process and
(though the waterfall development model is no longer fashionable), we
tend to handcuff ourselves with the "first requirements, then design,
and (only) then construction" mentality. I agree with Kent Beck that in
his otherwise brilliant "Code Complete" Steven McConnell pushes the
construction metaphor too far. Developing software is (or should be) a
learning process, and we gain insight into how better to build a piece
of software by working on it. It seems fruitless to think that any
large problem can really completely understood "up front" before we
even begin to create a solution.
"The most profound technologies are those that disappear."
--Mark Weiser
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