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On today's show we're onthe phone with the creator ofExtremeProgramming(XP) and one of the founders of theAgile Manifesto,KentBeck. Kent and Wolfgang discuss the relationship between XP and QA.
This will be our final podcast of 2005. Stay tuned, as we'll be returning inJanuary with more testing topics. As always, if you've got feedback or a suggestionfor a future episode, leave a comment ordropus an email.
Here are some quotes from today's show:
"10 years ago, when I started talking about the precursors to XP, programmersweren't writing tests, ever. But, there are a couple of trends that contributeto changing this. One is shorter and shorter software release cycles. If youhave to release software once a month, you don't have time for a two-monthQA cycle...The other large-scale trend is toward asking for more visibilityand accountability in the software development process."
"In XP-style development, two people typically write code together. They'rehaving a conversation--the keyboard is going back and forth. So you alreadyhave that second set of eyes looking at the code. Say you're workingon thecode, I might be thinking about the next test that we could be writing."
"You can't know what you don't know. Part of the XP philosophy is keepingyour options open as long as possible. Rather than having a big architecturedeveloped up front. In XP, you would develop the architecture along with thecode along with the tests for the non-functional requirements."
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