Um estudo referente ao processo de documentação do software desenvolvido em Extreme Programming

Abstract

Every year, hundreds of software products are written aiming to solve several problems and to simplify the execution of customer quotidian tasks, however, they frequently doesn’t feel satisfied. On the methodologies utilized until now, the software development process was modeled on a deterministic way, being composed by innumerous well defined stages where a posterior phase was extremely dependent of the results from the anterior phase. Project changes in initial stages should result in a complete process redesign, causing sometimes a total restart of the entire software development process. Extreme Programming is a new software development methodology based on simple practices that aim to offer flexibility and agility to the software process. Its principal features is coding emphasis instead of software design and modeling concepts. One of its fundamental principles is testing, applied before and during the coding. Its principal focus is on the solution space, trying to apply the programming techniques to their maximum, aiming to achieve the simplest possible solution rapidly. Considering the importance of documentation to the software maintenance and correct utilization, this paper proposes to search and to introduce information about the documentation types offered by the XP technique.