Exploring Extreme Programming
Programming Pearls, Jon Bentley. Addison-Wesley, 1999 (2/e). More Programming Pearls, Jon Bentley. Addison-Wesley, 1988. These truly are pearls: great lessons in programming in the small. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. Addison-Wesley, 1986. The infamous “dragon book.” There are plenty of things it doesn’t cover, but it provides a theory-based look at the basics of scanning, parsing, Continue reading Review – Compilers (The Dragon Book)
XP/Agile Universe 2002: LNCS 2418, Don Wells and Laurie Williams. Springer-Verlag, 2002. Conference proceedings for the 2002 conference. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)
A Practical Guide to Extreme Programming, David Astels, Granville Miller, Miroslav Novak, 2002. Another introduction to XP. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)
Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win, Ken Auer and Roy Miller. Addison-Wesley, 2002. While the description of XP echoes the other books in the series, this book has two particular strengths: it considers the issues of resistance to change, and it Continue reading Review – Extreme Programming Applied
Extreme Programming Examined, Giancarlo Succi and Michele Marchesi, editors. Addison-Wesley, 2001. Selected papers from the XP 2000 conference. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)
Extreme Programming in Practice, Robert Martin and James Newkirk. Addison-Wesley, 2001. A worked-through example of using XP. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)
Planning Extreme Programming, Kent Beck and Martin Fowler. Addison-Wesley, 2000. Deeper investigation of the planning game. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)
Extreme Programming Installed, Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, and Chet Hendrickson. Addison-Wesley, 2000. A broad-ranging array of many topics important in XP. My favorite is the notion of “The Circle of Life”: the proper separation of business and technical concerns. (Reviewed Continue reading Review – Extreme Programming Installed
Extreme Programming Explored, William C. Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2001. My approach is to use concrete examples to illustrate general points. I’m particularly happy to share examples of test-first programming and refactoring, and the discussion of metaphors. Table of contents. (Summarized Nov., ’02)