Enduring Ideas in the Realm of Software
Do you need to adopt all of the Extreme Programming (XP) practices to get results? Can you adopt the XP practices piecemeal? In Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition) (The XP Series), Kent Beck writes that you can adopt XP practices piecemeal, but the more you adopt, the more synergy you get. The Full …
In Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases: Through the Systems Development Life-Cycle, Ian F. Alexander and Neil Maiden mention periodic design refactoring: A variant of the Incremental model appears to be the ‘Extreme Programing (XP)’ approach put forward in Beck (2000) in which integrity of the system architecture across all increments is maintained by periodic design ‘refactoring.’ …