From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d269667138460f40,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-15 11:01:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!newsserver.cilea.it!news.unige.it!not-for-mail From: Michele Marchesi Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: XP and Agile Methodologies Conference Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:55:36 +0100 Organization: DIEE Message-ID: <3BF40198.CD9F2704@diee.unica.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: tulipano.dibe.unige.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ftp-news.csita.unige.it 1005846896 19699 130.251.169.185 (15 Nov 2001 17:54:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.unige.it NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Nov 2001 17:54:56 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [it] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16586 Date: 2001-11-15T17:54:56+00:00 List-Id: ********* XP2002 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ********* 3rd International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering - XP2002 26-29 May, 2002, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy Home Page: http://www.xp2002.org General Chair: Kent Beck, Three Rivers Institute, USA Program Chair: Michele Marchesi, University of Cagliari, Italy Program Co-chair: Giancarlo Succi, University of Alberta, Canada PRESENTATION OF XP2002 Building on the success of XP2000 and XP2001, the Third International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering will be a forum to discuss theories, practices, experiences, and tools on XP and other agile software processes, like SCRUM, the Adaptive Software Process, Feature Driven Development and the Crystal series. XP2002 will bring together people from industry and academia to share experiences and ideas and to provide an archival source for important papers on agile process-related topics. The conference is also meant to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer. The conference will include technical presentations, panels, poster sessions, activity sessions, workshops, and tutorials. CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference will stress practical applications and implications of XP and other agile processes (AP). Conference topics include, but are not limited to: - Foundations and rationale of XP and AP - Case studies and experiments - Methodology and process - Organizational and management issues and patterns - Scalability issues - Education and training - Introducing AP into an organization - Relation to reuse - Relation to UML and the Unified Process - Relation to the CMM and ISO 9001 - Empirical findings of XP and AP effectiveness - XP Practices: user stories, on-site customer, planning game, short releases, metaphor, simple design, refactoring, pair programming, continuous integration, collective code ownership, no overtime, coding standards - Unit and acceptance testing: practices and experiences - Use of supportive software development tools and environments - Refactoring and continuous integration - Merging of agile processes - Other issues on agile methodologies IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Tutorial proposals: December 15, 2001 Workshops and active sessions proposals: December 31, 2001 Paper submission: December 31, 2001 Acceptance notification: February 15, 2002 Final manuscript submission: April 1, 2002 For more information, including conference topics and instructions to authors, please refer to XP2002 Web site: http://www.xp2002.org or send an e-mail to: michele@diee.unica.it