References on Extreme Programming

Extreme Programming, Methodology and Practice

The Basic Reference:

• Kent Beck, extreme Programming explained: Embrace change Addison-Wesley, 2000.

Other books in the Addison-Wesley XP Series.

• Ken Auer and Roy Miller, Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win, Addison-Wesley, 2002. (A practical guide to getting started using extreme programming.)
• Kent Beck and Martin Fowler, Planning Extreme Programming, (Estimation is a vital part of the extreme programming approach, and this discusses this and related strategic matters.)
• Giancarlo Succi and Michele Marchesi, Extreme Programming Examined, Addison-Wesley, 2001. (A collection of 33 articles explaining various elements of extreme programming.)
• William Wake, Extreme Programming Explored, Addison-Wesley, 2001. (Wake's first-hand experiences using extreme programming on actual projects.)
• Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler, Pair Programing Illunimated, Addison-Wesley, 2003. (Lists both principles and best practices for pair programming.)

Articles

• Ambler Scott, "Lessons in Agility from Internet-Based Development", IEEE Software, Volume 19, March 2002, pp. 66-73.
• R. Arnold, "Software Restructuring" Proceedings IEEE, Volume 77, Number 4, April 1989, pp. 607-617.
• Kent Beck, "Embracing Change with Extreme Programming", Computer, Volume 32, Number 10, October 1999, pp. 70-77.
• Joseph Bergin, Learning the Planning Game, http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/xp/planninggame.html
• V. Scott Gordon and James Bieman, "Rapid Prototyping Lessons Learned", IEEE Software, Volume 12, January 1995, pp. 85-95.
• Gloria Mark, "Extreme Collaboration" Communications of the ACM, Volume 45, Number 6, June 2002, pp. 89-93.
• C. Jones, "How Software Estimation Tools Work", American Programmer, Volume 9, July 1996, pp. 19-27.
• Pamela Jordan et al, "Software Storming: Combining Rapid Prototyping and Knowledge Enginering", Computer, Volume 22, Number 5, May 1989, pp. 39-50.
• Albert Lederer and Jayesh Prasad, "Nine Management Guidelines for Better Cost Estimating", Communications of the ACM, Volume 35, Number 2, February 1992, pp. 51-59.
• M. Paulk, "Extreme Programming from a CMM Perspective" IEEE Software Volume 18, November 2001, pp. 19-26.
• Lawrence Putnam and Ware Myers, "How Solved is the Cost Estimation Problem?", IEEE Software, Volume 15, November 1997, pp. 105-107.
• William Roetzheim, "Estimating Software Costs (part 1 of 4)", Software Development, October 2000, http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=821/sdm0010d/
• William Roetzheim, "Project Cost Adjustments (part 2 of 4)", Software Development, November 2000, http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=821/sdm0011g/
• William Roetzheim, "Calculating for Reuse (part 3 of 4)", Software Development, December 2000, http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=821/sdm0012f/
• William Roetzheim, "Creating the Project Plan (part 4 of 4)", Software Development, October 2000, http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=821/sdm0101g/
• M. Tanik and R. Yeh, "Rapid Prototyping in Software Development", Computer, Volume 22, Number 5, May 1989.

Pair Programming

• Alistair Cockburn and Laurie Williams, "The Costs and Benefits of Pair Programming, XP2000, 2000 and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/XPSardinia.PDF
• John T. Nosek, "The Case for Collaborative Programming", Communications of the ACM, Volume 41, Number 3, March 1998, pp. 105-108.
• Fred Grossman and Joe Bergin, Pair Storytelling, http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/xp/pairstorytelling.html
• Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming Silver Anniversary Edition, Dorset House Publishing, 1998.
• Laurie Ann Williams, The Collaborative Software Process Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Utah, August 2000, and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/dissertation.pdf
• Laurie Williams, Robert Kessler, Ward Cunningham, and Ron Jeffries, "Strengthening the Case for Pair Programming", IEEE Software, Volume 17, July 2000, pp. 19-25, and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/ieeeSoftware.PDF.
• Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler, "All I Really Need to Know about Pair Programming I Learned in Kindergarten", Communications of the ACM, Volume 43, Number 5, May 2000, pp. 108-114, and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/Kindergarten.PDF
• Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler, "The Effects of "Pair Pressure" and "Pair-Learning" on Software Engineering Education", CSEET, 2000 and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/CSEET.PDF
• Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler, "Experimenting with Industry's Pair Programming Model in the Computer Science Classroom", Journal of Computer Science Education Volume 10, Number 4, December 2000, and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/CSED.pdf
• Laurie Williams, Eric Wiebe, Kai Yang, Miriam Ferzli, and Carol Miller, "In support of Pair Programming in the Introductory Computer Science course", Journal of Computer Science Education, September 2002, and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/PP%20in%20Introductory_CSED.pdf

Some Web Sites

• www.pairprogramming.com contains several other references and links. The Wiki Web contains notes, comments and links on pair programming.
• Additional materials by Laurie Williams and collaborators are listed at http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/pubs.htm, although you may need to ask the browser to ignore several runtime errors.

Acknowledgements

• A listing by John Dooley, Knox College, of journal articles related to course CS 332 Software Engineering, at http://courses.knox.edu/cs322/JournalArticles.html .
• Materials indexed by Joseph Bergin, Pace University at http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/ .
• Materials from Laurie Williams, one of the true leaders in research on paired programming, may be found at http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/

created April 20, 2003 last revised April 23, 2003
For more information, please contact Henry M. Walker at walker@cs.grinnell.edu.