"In this completely revised introduction to Extreme Programming (XP), Kent Beck describes how to improve
your software development by integrating these concepts
into your daily development process.
The first edition of Extreme Programming Explained is a classic. It won awards for its then-radical ideas for improving small-team development, such as having developers write automated tests for their own code and having the whole team plan weekly. Much has changed in five years.
This completely rewritten second edition expands the
scope of XP to teams of any size by suggesting a program
of continuous improvement." Whether you have a small team that is already closely aligned with your customers or a large team in a gigantic or multinational organization, you will find in these pages a wealth of ideas to challenge, inspire, and encourage you and your team members to substantially improve your software development.
Chapter 1 What is XP?
Section 1 Exploring XP
Chapter 2 Learning to drive
Chapter 3 Values, principles, and practices
Chapter 4 Values
Chapter 5 Principles
Section 2 Philosophy of XP
Chapter 17 Creation story
Chapter 18 Taylorism and software
Chapter 19 Toyota production system
Chapter 20 Applying XP
Chapter 21 Purity
AUTHOR DESCRIPTION
Kent Beck owns and operates First Class Software, Inc., where he focuses on his two greatest interests, patterns and Extreme Programming. He has helped pioneer patterns for software development, CRC cards, the HotDraw drawing editor framework, the xUnit unit testing framework, and the rediscovery of test-first programming. He is the author of more than 50 articles on programming and the books The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns (Prentice-Hall) and Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk: A Sorted Collection (Cambridge University Press).