Hello Phlip, P> _This_ is where the XP bashers need to be. If their P> first exposure to XP hadn't been our bizarre rhetoric, P> but instead a sight of a whole...
... Yes, but usually over money. If you base your salary expectations on the cost of living in San Francisco, well, there's a reason were in Omaha. You can buy...
... Ask if they ever saw a project as old as yours with a zero bug rate. ===== Phlip http://industrialxp.org/community/bin/view/Main/TestFirstUserInterfaces ...
... This is a pretty strong statement. I'm not here to disagree with it, but to explore it. I offer these starting questions: To what extent is TDD that...
... Nice! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was. -- Theodore von Karman...
... Nice explanation of why not asking for help can actually hurt the team. OTOH, there's no page title, and the HTML is ... let's just say "ill-formed" and...
Edmund Schweppe
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Jul 1, 2004 11:30 am
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... There is no easy answer: there is only the truth. "Right now, this appears to be a 200 point project. Based on our performance on other projects (or a...
... ISTM that one of the key points of XP is the ability to adapt code to new requirements. That tends to mean that you need to refactor safely, which implies...
... So a team that does test-last and refactoring, instead of test-driven, and that gets high coverage ... is doing Scrum? ... I take it that you're saying...
... If I'm understanding this exchange, there seems to be a hidden trap that implies that any team working with legacy code should not be able to refer to...
Hi John, ... I agree that TDD includes test first and refactoring, but I think it's more than those two things. Writing no code without a broken test is the ...
... I guess I'm one of those strange people who would say, "Ohama? Great!" Personally, I would be really happy to be interviewed in the manner that Ken...
Eric Crampton
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Jul 1, 2004 9:23 pm
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... Great!" If you smalltalk and you're interested, send a resume my way....
Definitely the fish. But I'm having trouble capturing the feeling of what Lister said. Any idea what I should say about it? ... -- John Brewer Extreme...
... Well, hmm. Here are some notes I took. Not clear what the theme is ... One main point was that there's no one way. He recommended against homogenizing the...
... I think the assumption is "adding features without TDD." I think the usual convention is for this to include test-driving new features added to legacy code...
... Is XP a toolkit or a destination? Can a team add and subtract things from XP to adapt their toolkit to the job they're doing or is that a violation of XP...
... "Inspired by XP, and aspiring to XP" is the phrase I use. Karl http://www.bbc.co.uk/ - World Wide Wonderland This e-mail (and any attachments) is...
... Absolutely. Karl http://www.bbc.co.uk/ - World Wide Wonderland This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are...
... As long as what they are doing still supports ALL four values of simplicity, communication, feedback and courage, they are XP in my book. If your actions...
... The practices are a toolkit; XP is a destination, a way. ... No: XP is what you do after you've tried the 12 practices, understand how and why they work,...
... Let me be Uncle Bob for a moment... NO! An AGILE detector would be calibrated to the four values; but without practices consistent with the values, it's...
For the past 2 years I've been using pair programming as a general interview technique, even when I'm performing interviews for clients who don't do pair...
