Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology that makes coding the primary activity. By promoting values such as simplicity and feedback, XP allows Java programmers to incrementally ...

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An application development technique called eXtreme Programming is gaining momentum among mainstream corporations in the U.K., though it’s been slower to pick up converts in the U.S. The approach, ...

Mark Windholtz spent the first 12 years of his programming career writing code alone in a cubicle. But now when Windholtz creates code, he does so with a comrade at his side--one of the tenets of the ...

As corporations struggle to complete application development projects on time, within budget and without lots of buggy code, they’re taking a closer look at new development methods, such as extreme ...

As software eats the world, business leaders need to understand better how software gets made, and the people who make it. An excellent guide is Kent Beck, one of the parents of the Agile software ...

When a development team decides to migrate to extreme programming (XP), the natural tendency is to focus on the programming practices, including unit testing, continuous integration, refactoring, and ...