The current issue of IEEE Computer has a continuation of Barry Boehm's and Victor Basili's article on the TOP 10 Issues. The current article is on the Top 10...
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... There's been a lot of threads on this in the past, so first thing I'd recommend is search the archives and then search the Wiki. There's no easy answer....
... I tried this as well. I get a [x] instead of the doc. (I do have adobe acrobat installed). I also tried ftp and then acrobat, still no luck. anyone else...
I've been reading PXP. I had a rather off the wall thought. Kent and = Martin describe with various levers (Scope, Quality, Time, Cost), but = really several...
... Its just a ploy to sell XP consulting services ;-) No seriously... You should only go about tailoring the process when you have had enough experience...
From: "Ron Jeffries" <ronjeffries@...> ... My understanding of the question is the question of adequate testing. XP says test everything that can go wrong....
There has recently been a conjecture placed on the extreme programming mail group that Design Patterns are harmful. The complaint is that designers try to...
Hello! I'm a student of Computer Science at Munich University of Technology, Germany. I'm doing my master's thesis about Extreme Programming (XP). For this...
For those of you who may be like me and want to see some more deatils about a topic. Either to put to use or to improve understanding there is a nice paper on...
Michael Feathers is saying that patterns are not worth learning. He says, learn refactoring instead. Learn delegation and double dispatch, not strategy or...
Hi! I am currently working with a project which is working out how reusability and design patterns would increase the value of the defense software projects in...
... I would think that it's easier to change a good design that doesn't fit the situation than to change a bad design that just plain sucks. ... I've heard...
Re "Code normalization": For what it's worth, I'd suggest not ... ... ... because, from the point of view of both Mathematics and RDB theory, normalization...
... From: Phil Goodwin <phil.goodwin@...> ... coding that test-first design encourages: adding functionality in small stable increments. It's similar...
Lee>>>>> ... <<<<< This is something that the lab sorely lacks: technical mentoring. There's plenty of career mentoring, but when it comes to constructing the...
... A She'd have to embody XP of course. Agile, high velocity, high business value, loves stories and metaphor, loves to work with people. That can't be...
- In [XP] Digest Number 1059 someone wrote: - "Don't miss XP UNIVERSE.." Is there going to be a Miss XP Universe? On what attributes will she be chosen? ... ...
Can any one educate me on the process of initiating both XP and pair programming. I am in the process of initiating Pair programming first. Could any one tell...
... ... and it's embodied in one of the rules - "name 3 examples of the pattern in use." If you can't find these examples, then it isn't broadly enough reused...
... Yes it is legal. It basically creates a temporary instance of the class. Normally, you'd pass it somewhere or assign it to something, but that doesn't...
Responding to Ron Jeffries... ... It's funny. Here at IBM, one of the criteria for performance evaluation is "Finds a better way to do things". It stupefies me...
I agree that the little patterns are immediately useful and applicable. I like the more complex ones available so I can refer to them later if they "might"...
I find that I've been using this word recently to refer to the kind of coding that test-first design encourages: adding functionality in small stable...
I think that usability issues are another example of Business responsibilities that have been abdicated to Development. I understand that "economies of scale"...
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