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The Advent of Agile
medium, which is, of course, storing the testing knowledge in the fifth
knowledge medium, which is what we should do all along.
Pair Programming
It is this characteristic for which XP is probably most famous. It is well
known that we cannot see our own defects, because to us they do not look
like defects. Joining two programmers at the hip and having them create
together avoids the tunnel vision that creating causes. Pair programming
also blows up the concept of “my” program, because it can be difficult even
to spot “my” line in a program when pair programming is used. More than
anything, pair programming collapses the feedback cycle ...