Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse

G. Extreme Programming (XP) Cheat Sheet

Source of information on this page: extremeprogramming.org

Overview

• Customer lists the features that the software must provide.
• Programmers break the features into standalone tasks and estimate the work needed to complete each task.
• Customer chooses the most important tasks that can be completed by the next release.
• Programmers choose tasks and work in pairs.
• Programmers write unit tests.
• Programmers add features to pass unit tests.
• Programmers fix features and tests as necessary, until all tests pass.
• Programmers integrate code.
• Programmers produce a released version.
• Customer runs acceptance tests.
• Version goes into production.
• Programmers update their estimates based on the amount of work they’ve done ...