Index

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A Day in the Code (song), 204

A Night at the Payroll Project: Optional-Scope Contract Scene ( satire ), 263 “266

About Face 2.0 , 297

acceptance tests

customers writing, 191 “192

defined, 228

described, 8

on-site customers and, 130 “131

vs. requirements, 242

requirements as, 242 “245

timing of releases and, 303

user stories vs., 228

acronyms, and Extremo culture, 103 “104

activities

extreme programming in practice and, 27

extreme programming theory and, 16 “18

taming XP and, 357

The Adventures of Uncle Joe and Jack the Siberian Code Hound (satire), 145 “146

agile methods

agile, defined, 304

managing change and, 308

refactoring XP and, 339 “343

decreasing risk, 339

contingency vs. embellishment , 342 “343

encouraging contingency, 339 “340

necessary operations and procedures, 339

preventing fragility, 340 “342

up-front design and, 286, 287, 307

XP as a people process and, 94 “96

Agile Modeling (AM), vs. XP, 353

Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process (John Wiley & Sons, 2002) pair programming and, 353

principles in, 216

up-front design and, 218

XP documentation and, 166, 167

Agile Software Development (Addison- Wesley, 2001). See also Cockburn, Alistair

customer responsibility and, 118

feedback and, 6

on software processes, 79

tailoring methodologies and, 368

agility

agile, defined, 304

enhancing with up-front design, 307

keeping design agile, 287

Alexander, Ian, 101

Ambler, Scott, 287. See also Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process (John Wiley & Sons, 2002)

Why Data Models Shouldn t Drive Object Models [And Vice Verse] (article), 223

XP documentation and, 166

Application Development Advisor magazine, 109

architecture. See also emergent design

architectural scalability, 322 “328

emergent design example, 324 “326

scalability drives architecture, 323 “324

The Piggy Scale of Process Robustness (satire), 326 “328

throwing away code, 326

architecture-shifting requirements, 242

poor architecture and XP, 278 “279

Arizona Daily Star, 257

Aspects of Testing (VoXP), 192

asynchronous messaging, testing for, 188 “189

ATLAS project, 314 “322

emergent design on, 320 “321

problems with, 315 “320

summary of, 321 “322