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Architecture and Design in eXtreme Programming; Introducing “Developer Stories”

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Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP 2006)

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This article introduces a new practice to eXtreme Programming (XP): Developer stories. The goal of these stories and their creation process is to incorporate architectural planning to XP thus ensuring a viable architecture. By conducting a small development project using XP, we find that establishing a viable architecture might be problematic. Arguing that architectural quality criteria in XP are traceable to traditional criteria, and by pointing to related work regarding incremental continous design, requirements management and large-scale refactorings, we find support for this claim. We proceed by describing the new practice ensuring that it embraces the values, and supports existing practices of XP.

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Jensen, R.N., Møller, T., Sönder, P., Tjørnehøj, G. (2006). Architecture and Design in eXtreme Programming; Introducing “Developer Stories”. In: Abrahamsson, P., Marchesi, M., Succi, G. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4044. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11774129_14

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