XtC17102000

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What Happened?

Two people from Paul's team, Assad and Cyril made their XTCDebut. They hoped to meet Matt from Connextra, but most of the Connextra guys were absent.

See who turned up here [1], courtesy of Paul's camera.(left to right: Assad, Chris, Ivan, Igor, Tom, out of shot: Paul taking picture and Cyril buying beer at bar).

Tom had a couple of earthshatteringly brilliant insites into XP but this was after 4 pints of Hoergaarden on an empty stomach and he: 1 cannot remember them 2 is not quite sure how earthshattering they were.

One of the insights was to call XP "EvidenceBasedProgramming": seemed like a nice name at the time... Chris

That was yours Chris, and a damn good one too I think. It was to stress the need for real concrete feedback in all things (tests for code, metrics for productivity etc)

One of them was an XP OpenClosed? principal I think.

I hope so. I might bring along my attempt at a test tester. If you have a laptop with SDK1.3.0 and some code that has tests using JUnit3.2, then bring it along and we can try out the test tester. IvanM

• SteveF can't make it
• TomAyerst will turn up
• ChrisCottee will be there