Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering: 7th International Conference, XP 2006, Oulu, Finland, June 17-22, 2006, Proceedings [Paperback]

Unbelievable, we have reached the seventh edition of the XP2k+n conference! We started at the outset of the new millennium, and we are still proving that agile pr- esses were neither a millennium bug nor a YAF (yet another fad). In its first editions, this conference was a get-together of a few pioneers who - bated about how to make agile processes and methods accepted by the mainstream researchers and practitioners in software engineering. Now agile approach to software development has been fully accepted by the software engineering community and this event has become the major forum for understanding better the implications of agility in software development and proposing extensions to the mainstream approaches. These two aspects were fully reflected in this years conference. They were - flected in the keynote speeches, which covered the background work done starting as early as the early eighties by Barry Boehm, definition of the field by Kent Beck, a successful industrial application in a success story by Sean Hanly, the perspective and the future of agile methods in large corporations by Jack J?rkvik, and even some - sightful views from a philosopher, Pekka Himanen.Foundation and Rationale for Agile Methods.- A Distributed Cognition Account of Mature XP Teams.- Foundations of Agile Decision Making from Agile Mentors and Developers.- Software Development as a Collaborative Writing Project.- Comparative Analysis of Job Satisfaction in Agile and Non-agile Software Development Teams.- Effects of Pair Programming.- Investigating the Impact of Personality Types on Communication and Collaboration-Viability in Pair Programming  An Empirical Study.- The Collaborative Nature of Pair Programming.- Is External Code Quality Correlated with Programming Experience or Feelgood Factor?.- Quality in Agile Software Development.- Leveraging Code Smell Detection with Inter-smell Relations.- Studying the Evolution of Quality Metrics in an Agile/Distributed Project.- The Effect of l^