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Adding planned design to xp might help novices' productivity (or might not): two controlled experiments

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René Noël,

Gonzalo Valdes,

Marcello Visconti,

Hernán AstudilloAuthors Info & Claims

ESEM '08: Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement

Pages 285 - 287

https://doi.org/10.1145/1414004.1414053

Published: 09 October 2008 Publication History

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Extreme Programming (XP) suggests using Evolutionary design, always implementing the simplest solution that satisfies the current iteration's requirements, instead of Planned (or Traditional) up-front design. Some developers have questioned the usefulness of Evolutionary approach's enabling practices (e.g., refactoring, test-driven development) arguing for the naturalness of, and need for, Planned design. Two controlled experiments were conducted to compare both approaches regarding product quality and programmer productivity. Results from both studies show that (1) there is no significant difference in the product quality, independently of experience, but (2) novices are more productive using the Planned approach.

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Adding planned design to xp might help novices' productivity (or might not): two controlled experiments
1. Theory of computation
  1. Semantics and reasoning
    1. Program reasoning
      1. Program verification

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ESEM '08: Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement

October 2008

374 pages

ISBN:9781595939715

DOI:10.1145/1414004

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Dieter Rombach
University of Kaiserslautern and Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Germany)
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Sebastian Elbaum
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
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Jürgen Münch
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Germany)

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