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The Advent of Agile
Coding Standards
XP also recommends adherence and adoption of cooperative coding
standards. Given the ideal of anyone being able to go into any code, some
kind of reasonable standards are essential.
Code Science
Code Science is a variant of XP developed at Geneer, a software engi-
neering company based in Rosemont, Illinois, and is now actively practiced
at a highly competent and innovative consulting company called AgileTek.
It was a very successful approach and proved itself in the marketplace.
Based largely on the precepts of XP, Code Science added, subtracted, and
modified XP processes as follows:
• Business Process Analysis. XP, as well as many other methodologies,
assumes that a legitimate source of business requirements is ...