Extreme programming applied in a large-scale distributed system

Abstract

Nowadays Agile practices are getting increasing popularity in software development communities. In this paper we show how Extreme Programming practices (XP) could enhance the development and implementation of a large-scale and geographically distributed system. A number of papers have been published in the past few years reporting experiences with agile development and XP in particular. However information on the practical usage of XP in large-scale systems is still considered limited. We try to gain better understanding of the impact of using XP process to the development effort of large-scale distributed systems while taking Sudan Automated Traffic Violations Project as a case study. By and large, it has been shown that adaptation of Extreme Programming practices in the project has increased the human factor output and helped in the generation of promising ideas about complex design issues the team used to approach the overall system conceptualization and implementation as well as future extensions.