A Practical Guide to Extreme Programming

XP is taking off like a rocket, rapidly becoming the world's most popular agile methodology. Now, there's a readable, concise guide that brings together all the guidance and best practices you need to make XP work in your organization. The authors begin by introducing the key practices that developers must take to heart in order to make XP work, and the key players in an XP project -- including developers, managers, and customers. You'll learn how to create a vision of your proposed software system, write effective user stories and acceptance tests, and plan for regular releases and iterations. The book identifies best practices for XP testing, "coding with intention," integration, and refactoring -- showing how developers can overcome the challenges early XP implementers have encountered, and achieve the powerful benefits XP can provide. For all software developers, architects, analysts, and project managers interested in XP and agile methodologies.

DAVE ASTELS has more than 17 years' experience as a software developer in areas ranging from embedded environment control to intellectual property protection systems to electrical energy trading systems. For more than a decade, he has been working almost exclusively with object technologies. He runs his own consulting company specializing in Extreme Programming and pervasive Java solutions.

GRANVILLE MILLER is co-author of Addison Wesley's Advanced Use Case Modeling series of books, has presented tutorials at object-oriented technology conferences worldwide, and has worked with companies ranging from early-stage startups to the world's most established software giants.

MIROSLAV NOVAK has been a proponent of eXtreme Programming for nearly three years, actively following its development and taking advantage of opportunities to apply its tenets. Miroslav is a Mentor at Togethersoft Corporation. He currently teaches and develops workshops and contributes to product development specification and testing.