Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology that makes coding the primary activity. By promoting values such as simplicity and feedback, XP allows Java programmers to incrementally ...

Excellent quality in a software product is a competitive advantage. Citect's adoption of a software development and testing process known as eXtreme Programming shows how thinking a new way about ...

Mark Windholtz spent the first 12 years of his programming career writing code alone in a cubicle. But now when Windholtz creates code, he does so with a comrade at his side--one of the tenets of the ...

Software development methodologies have become essential for development teams for a reason: they organize the process and help in getting the best possible outcomes. Yet, they aren't all alike.

In a recent discussion in ITworld.com’s Interviews forum, Bertrand Meyer, an object-oriented software theorist and developer of the Eiffel programming language, discussed certain reservations he had ...