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title: "Engineering Notebook: An Extreme Programming Episode"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/29/engineering-notebook-an-extreme-programming-episode.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/29/engineering-notebook-an-extreme-programming-episode.html"
published: "2003-09-29T06:42:00"
updated: "2003-09-29T06:42:00"
tags: ["Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "In order to demonstrate XP (eXtreme Programming) practices, Bob Koss (RSK) and Bob Martin (RCM) will pair program a simple application while you watch like a fly on the wall. We will use test first design and a lot of…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Engineering Notebook: An Extreme Programming Episode

By Roy Osherove September 29, 2003 In [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 29, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

_In order to demonstrate XP (eXtreme Programming) practices, Bob Koss (RSK) and Bob Martin (RCM) will pair program a simple application while you watch like a fly on the wall. We will use test first design and a lot of refactoring to create our application. What follows is a faithful re-enactment of a programming episode that the two Bob's actually did._

\[[Engineering Notebook: An Extreme Programming Episode](http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=7998/cujcexp1902martin/)\]

[Read the full story](http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=7998/cujcexp1902martin/)

This is very interesting. Nothing like looking at other people to learn new things.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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