Hi, Personally, I see XP as a cohensive collection of rule of tumbs in developing software components, rather than a solid-and-well-formed software-lifecycle ...
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Palani
palanip@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:18 am
Don, Thanks. Did your team use any tools? If yes what was user experience? Did you convert the domain first, test it on the functional tests in the new system...
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Brougham
brougham2@...
Feb 1, 2000 12:28 pm
Phil... ... isn't ... No comments are better than inaccurate comments. Documentation that is not kept current may or may not be a reflection of reality....
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Don Wells
jdonwells@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:01 pm
From: Palani <palanip@...> ... new ... We created the serializtion code at the same time the data model was being rewritten. We converted the functional...
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Fred George
fred@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:32 pm
From: paton [mailto:paton@...] "I think much of the advantage of pair programming (the second pair of eyes) can be had by using tools like LINT, code...
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Stephen McDonald
smcdonald@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:56 pm
I'm currently reading "The CRC Card Book" by David Bellin and Susan Suchman Simone - forewards by Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham. What I like is the emphasis on...
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Mike Schneider
michael.schneider@...
Feb 1, 2000 2:06 pm
Fred, The big advantage from the second pair of eyes may lie in the roles that you play. The person at the keyboard is thinking tactical: I need this loop to...
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Alan Francis
alanf@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:27 pm
I'm Alan, one of the two Brits (three is you count Mr Fowler) who attended XPImmersionOne, so Hi to anyone else who was there... A. -- Alan C Francis...
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Michael Mason
mgm@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:51 pm
Hi all, I'm new to all of this stuff, but in the XP book several mentions are made of CRC cards. However, the glossary doesn't tell me what these things are....
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Robert C. Martin
rmartin@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:56 pm
Hello Alan, nice to hear from you again. Uncle Bob....
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Mark Strecker
Mark.Strecker@...
Feb 1, 2000 4:12 pm
Hello Alan, It's good to hear from you again. Mark...
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Alan Francis
alanf@...
Feb 1, 2000 4:22 pm
Hi Bob, Hi Mark... I attempted to join the lista while ago, but cheerily failed to properly read the initial mail that I had to reply-to. I spent a few weeks...
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cbrooksbank@...
Feb 1, 2000 4:48 pm
If you always write the simplist ( and the most specific ) solution to your current immediate requirement you will generate problems. The next guy that comes...
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Ralf Christmann
rchristm@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:02 pm
X don't do the "thinking";-job for you! if you have two solutions for one problem, do you always take the complex one? No, only if you have a reason do to so. ...
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Bob Oliver
oliverb@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:03 pm
... Well, I just wanted to say goodbye. Why would the 400 or so of us who are not Alan care that you find it nice to hear from him? Is this what you had in...
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Michael C. Feathers
mfeathers@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:10 pm
... From: <cbrooksbank@...> ... your ... write his ... way ... programmers ... paste ... only ... lots of ... different with ... inelegant ... ....
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Zhon Johansen
zhon@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:12 pm
This message is an example of how one XP practice in isolation can and probably should be attacked. XP is a tightly knit collection of Values and Practices. ...
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cbrooksbank@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:20 pm
Zhon, Your comment makes a lot of sense. I will go back and read the rest of the principles of XP ( which I have only just come across ). I guess XP assumes...
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Pratt, Nick
npratt@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:38 pm
... From: Michael C. Feathers [mailto:mfeathers@...] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 12:14 To: extremeprogramming@egroups.com Subject:...
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Gareth Reeves
reevesy@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:39 pm
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?CrcCards ... From: mgm@... [mailto:mgm@...] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 9:55 AM To:...
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Michael C. Feathers
mfeathers@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:15 pm
Nick, This is where things get dangerous in mailing lists. Below the last edit, I said that you end up in trouble if you don't surround 'doing the simplest ...
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Robert C. Martin
rmartin@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:16 pm
... Not for today. The problems *may* come tomorrow. If on the other hand you try to anticipate tomorrows problems and protect yourself from them, you: 1)...
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Robert C. Martin
rmartin@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:27 pm
... Not quite. Kent recommends that you consider the simplest solution first. Assume simplicity. If you *know* that the simplest solution is inadequate then...
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Geoffrey Clements
gclement@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:27 pm
Actually, I'm just about to bail out too. I get the feeling that this list is just a big love fest for the XP principals. geoff ... From: "Bob Oliver"...
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Thomas Matelich
sosedada@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:36 pm
zhon johansen <zho-@...> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/extremeprogramming/?start =1178 ... and probably should ... probably don't...
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Bill Caputo
wcaputo@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:38 pm
Geoff, ... Having only been on this list for a week, I am curious, about your expectations: I want to learn more about this methodology. It seems to me that...
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Joshua Kerievsky
joshua@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:43 pm
... Let's also help our less experienced XP programmers find those abstraction by advising the following: When adding abstractions to make your designs...
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Barry Gervin
bgervin@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:54 pm
This sort of relates to the OpenSource question. The project that I'm working on is a commercial product development and I'm trying to visualize how things...
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Don Wells
jdonwells@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:58 pm
From: Michael Mason <mgm@...> ... CRC cards are just cards. 3x5, 5x8 what ever you find to be a good size will do. The idea is that a card can...
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Barry Gervin
bgervin@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:59 pm
Three Cheers for patterns. A friend of mind said it best when he commented about our profession compared to engineering. "We'll never get close to the...
