The Programmer Role
The programmers analyze, design, test, program, and integrate the system. The programmers estimate the difficulty of all stories, and track the pace at which they can deliver stories to the customer.
If the project is to deliver business value, each story must be understood. Software must be designed, tested, and built to implement that story, and all the software must be brought together into a coherent whole. That is the XP programmer's job. If you're the XP programmer, we're talking to you.
In Extreme Programming, the emphasis is on programming. Everything we do looks like programming and is focused on the most critical artifact of software development, the program.
Build the system in small releases, so that the customer ...
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