Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming 9th
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming, XP 2008, held in Limerick, Ireland, in June 2008. Out of 54 submitted papers, 16 were accepted as f
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Pekka Abrahamsson Richard Baskerville Kieran Conboy Brian Fitzgerald Lorraine Morgan Xiaofeng Wang (Eds.)
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming 9th International Conference, XP 2008 Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14, 2008 Proceedings
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Volume Editors Pekka Abrahamsson VTT Electronics 90571 Oulu, Finland E-mail: [email protected] Richard Baskerville Georgia State University Dept. of Computer Information Systems 30302 Atlanta, GA, USA E-mail: [email protected] Kieran Conboy National University of Ireland Dept. of Accountancy and Finance Galway, Ireland E-mail: [email protected] Brian Fitzgerald Lorraine Morgan Xiaofeng Wang University of Limerick Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre Limerick, Ireland E-mail: {brian.fitzgerald,lorraine.morgan}@ul.ie, [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008927853 ACM Computing Classification (1998): D.2, K.6 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
1865-1348 3-540-68254-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-68254-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
The XP conference series established in 2000 was the first conference dedicated to agile processes in software engineering. The idea of the conference is to offer a unique setting for advancing the state of the art in the research and practice of agile processes. This year’s conference was the ninth consecutive edition of this international event. The conference has grown to be the largest conference on agile software development outside North America. The XP conference enjoys being one of those conferences that truly brings practitioners and academics together. About 70% of XP participants come from industry and the number of academics has grown steadily over the years. XP is more of an experience rather than a regular conference. It offers several different ways to interact and strives to create a truly collaborative environment where new ideas and exciting findings can be presented and shared. For example, this year’s open space session, which was “a conference within a conference”, was larger than ever before. Agile software development is a unique phenomenon from several perspectives. F
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