Institute for Software Research International
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
The eXtreme Programming (XP) Metaphor and Software Architecture
James Herbsleb, David Root, James Tomayko
August 2003
Also appears as
Computer Science Department Technical Report
CMU-CS-03-167.pdf
The Metaphor is intended to contribute to the Agile Programming value
of communication. Previously, some of the author studied the Metaphor
as a means of communication among team members and between them and
clients. This paper examines the Metaphor's contribution to the software
architecture. Both experiments seemto reveal that the Metaphor has
poor effectiveness.
9 pages
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