Extreme Programming (XP)

Kent Beck introduced extreme programming to the programming community. He developed and documented an approach to computer software creation that uses elements of traditional methods and redefines the priority, sequence, and emphasis of these elements to increase the number of options available to developers as they fashion new software he calls Beck’s Extreme programming (Beck, 1999). To put it in layman’s term Extreme programming takes a few of the more important aspects of software development to the extreme, and de-emphasizes the sequence of events that are followed in the traditional programming environment.

What is Extreme Programming?

Extreme Programming is a discipline of software development based on values of simplicity, communication, feedback, and courage. It works by bringing the whole team together in the presence of simple practices, with enough feedback to enable the team to see where they are and to tune the practices to their unique situation. Before Extrem...