An empirical study of relationships among extreme programming engineering activities

Mohammad Alshayeb; Wei Li

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2006.01.005

An empirical study of relationships among extreme programming engineering activities

Mohammad Alshayeb^*
, Wei Li

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Extreme programming (XP) is an agile software process that promotes early and quick production of working code. In this paper, we investigated the relationship among three XP engineering activities: new design, refactoring, and error fix. We found that the more the new design performed to the system the less refactoring and error fix were performed. However, the refactoring and error fix efforts did not seem to be related. We also found that the error fix effort is related to number of days spent on each story, while new design is not. The relationship between the refactoring effort and number of days spent on each story was not conclusive.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1068-1072
Number of pages	5
Journal	Information and Software Technology
Volume	48
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2006.01.005
State	Published - Nov 2006

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Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive contributions. The author also acknowledge the support of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in the development of this work.

Keywords

Design evolution
Empirical study
Extreme programming
Extreme programming engineering activities

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Information Systems
Computer Science Applications

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