“First a small team writes a small system. Then they find the natural fracture lines and divide the system into relatively independent parts for expansion. The architects help choose the most appropriate fracture lines and then follow the system as… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
“If I have the same logic in two places, I work with the design to understand how I can have only one copy. Designs… — Kent Beck Copy Share
Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me… — Kent Beck Copy Share
“However, most defects end up costing more than it would have cost to prevent them. Defects are expensive when they occur, both the direct… — Kent Beck Copy Share
“Trust energizes participants. We feel good when things work smoothly. We need to be safe to experiment and make mistakes. We need testing to… — Kent Beck Copy Share
“If there are forms of testing, like stress and load testing, that find defects after development is "complete," bring them into the development cycle.… — Kent Beck Copy Share
“If you have a month to plan a project in detail, spend it on four one-week iterations developing while you improve your estimates. If… — Kent Beck Copy Share
“Some of the teams who read and applied the first edition of this book didn't get the part of the message about the last… — Kent Beck Copy Share
“Beta testing is a symptom of weak testing practices and poor communication with customers.” — Kent Beck Copy Share
“Responsibility cannot be assigned; it can only be accepted. If someone tries to give you responsibility, only you can decide if you are responsible… — Kent Beck Copy Share
Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding. — Kent Beck Copy Share
“Folk wisdom in software development teaches that interfaces shouldn't be unduly influenced by implementations. Writing a test first is a concrete way to achieve… — Kent Beck Copy Share
“To achieve this his team had a sophisticated stress testing environment. When they wanted to improve the architecture they would first improve the stress… — Kent Beck Copy Share
Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are… — Kent Beck Copy Share
