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Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2/e, by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres.
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004. ISBN 0321278658. Kent Beck's new introduction to the practices and philosophy of XP. See an extended summary. (Reviewed Feb., '05) |
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Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change,
Kent Beck. Addison-Wesley, 1999.
The manifesto for XP. (Reviewed Nov., '02) The second edition is now out; see an extended summary. |
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Extreme Programming Explored,
William C. Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2001.
My approach is to use concrete examples to illustrate general points. I'm particularly happy to share examples of test-first programming and refactoring, and the discussion of metaphors. Table of contents. (Summarized Nov., '02) |
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Extreme Programming Installed,
Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, and Chet Hendrickson. Addison-Wesley, 2000.
A broad-ranging array of many topics important in XP. My favorite is the notion of "The Circle of Life": the proper separation of business and technical concerns. (Reviewed Nov., '02) |
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Extreme Programming Adventures in C#, Ron Jeffries. Microsoft
Press, 2004. ISBN 0735619492.
Ron uses the vehicle of learning C# to demonstrate the incremental design of an XML editor. He adds "undo" last (a feature often cited as requiring up-front design), and asks us to judge how well incremental design worked for this project. My favorite aspect is all the little reflective moments, where Ron takes a minute to think about what went poorly or well. Incremental design can be hard to catch on to; following along this journey will help you understand it better. (Reviewed July, '04) |
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Planning Extreme Programming,
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler. Addison-Wesley, 2000.
Deeper investigation of the planning game. (Reviewed Nov., '02) |
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Extreme Programming in Practice,
Robert Martin and James Newkirk. Addison-Wesley, 2001.
A worked-through example of using XP. (Reviewed Nov., '02) |
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Extreme Programming Examined,
Giancarlo Succi and Michele Marchesi, editors. Addison-Wesley, 2001.
Selected papers from the XP 2000 conference. (Reviewed Nov., '02) |
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Extreme Programming
Applied: Playing to Win,
Ken Auer and Roy Miller. Addison-Wesley, 2002. While the description of XP echoes the other books in the series, this book has two particular strengths: it considers the issues of resistance to change, and it has many stories and anecdotes of XP in practice. (Reviewed Nov., '02) |
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Practical Guide to Extreme Programming, David
Astels, Granville Miller, Miroslav Novak, 2002. Another introduction to XP. (Reviewed Nov., '02) |
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XP/Agile Universe 2002: LNCS 2418,
Don Wells and Laurie Williams. Springer-Verlag, 2002. Conference proceedings for the 2002 conference. (Reviewed Nov., '02) |
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