| The target audience for this title are current .NET 1.1 developers and future .NET 2.0 developers who need to put Extreme Programming (XP) into practice. While other Extreme Programming books are usually theoretical in approach, this book takes the reader through the practical application of Extreme Programming with code-level solutions. It shows the reader how to apply the XP principles in a real-world environment. It provides an in depth look at each of the XP practices and shows the reader how each of these practices fits into the project development life-cycle. By showing developers how to work with .NET 1.1 today, and .NET 2.0 tomorrow, this book offers a long-term vision for Extreme Programming with Microsoft technologies.
Many books cover the theory of Extreme Programming (XP). This is not one of them. If you
are picking up this book hoping to learn about the philosophy of XP, you will be disappointed.
This book concentrates on the practical, not the theoretical. We hope to leave you with the
knowledge of how to implement XP in a practical manner. But before we do this, we need to
give you a clear, no-nonsense definition of XP.
To put XP in context, we'll begin by looking briefly at the waterfall and Agile methods of
software development. Each methodology has many books dedicated to it, of course. Here, we
will give you just enough information to understand how and why XP came to exist.
Then we'll answer the question "What is XP?" We'll look at all of the specific key values,
principles, and practices of XP. You'll know what XP is after you have read this section!
Next, we'll offer you a comparison between XP and some other current Agile methods.
Finally, we'll address when it's best to use XP.
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