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Extreme programming (XP) is one of the new agile methodologies for software engineering that has earned a lot of interest the last few years. Through a field study where a group of researchers and students aimed to learn XP through practice, we gathered qualitative data about the different practices of XP and programmers’ impression of them in order to do get knowledge on how the different practices work. Findings regarding the most well-known practices are presented in this paper and to a great extent seem to verify claims from the literature. However, some difficulties in the practices are reported.
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Tessem, B. (2003). Experiences in Learning XP Practices: A Qualitative Study. 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_17
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