Extreme Programming

ByWalter Wimberly

Sometimes called (XP), it is one of the most used forms of agile programming.

The XP Process

Planning – also called the planning game, begins with listening, to build user stories of what the user expects to do (what output will be generated, features, and functionality).

The user develops these stories and then assigns each one a point value of how important this is. Customers and developers work together to determine which features go into the next release.

Design – following the KIS (Keep it Simple) process. XP likes OOP ideas and uses CRC cards which we’ll look at later.

Coding – Develop Unit Tests first to ensure what is coded is correct.

XP likes Pair Programming where two people work together to help overcome issues and review each other’s code.

Testing – Unit test should have already been run. Now other testing takes place.

Extreme Programming was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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