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Practice Makes Perfect

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Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP 2003)

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This paper presents an early empirical study on Extreme Programming practices[1] employing a qualitative action research method. The study was conducted on university students doing real commercial development projects to gain an insight into the problems faced by the new developers in adopting these agile practices. The second aim of the study is to investigate the effects of the XP practices on the quality of software developed. What emerged from the preliminary analysis was the positive relationship between number of XP practices employed and the quality of software delivered as perceived by the clients.

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  1. Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield Regent court, Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK

    Sharifah Syed-Abdullah, Mike Holcombe & Marian Gheorghe

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Piazza D’Ami, 09123, Cagliari, Italy

    Michele Marchesi

  2. Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Center for Applied Software Engineering, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

    Giancarlo Succi

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Syed-Abdullah, S., Holcombe, M., Gheorghe, M. (2003). Practice Makes Perfect. In: Marchesi, M., Succi, G. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2675. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44870-5_50

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