| Agility
(a term coined from the manufacturing industry) is being heard
more and more in software development. Agile processes may be
the answer to an organisation's software development problems.
eXtreme
Programming (XP) is one such agile process. As well as a set
of values, it encompasses twelve practices such as small releases,
on-site customer, simple design and rigorous testing.
With
XP, an application is built in small "one to three week"
iterations. During each iteration,the team implements a set
of features arrived at and refined through conversation between
the developers and an on-site customer. It is the customer's
responsibility to write the functional tests. It is the developer's
responsibility to estimate the time and risk associated with
each feature implementation, and to implement the features
in such a way that the simplicity and correctness of the design
is not compromised.
XP
has mainly been applied to projects using the OO paradigm,
but it can equally well be used for non-OO projects.
| Who
should attend? |
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The
event will be of interest to managers and developers
as well as other staff involved in attempting to build
better software, faster and without much pain.
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