In this article Prerana Patil gives us a rapid overview of the core ideas of Agile Software Development. The article talks of the features of agile, when to adopt it and when not to. It then goes on to describe the agile process and the steps involved in adopting agile in an organization. An easy to understand tutorial that focusses on the key ideas and points in agile adoption without getting into any of the fluff associated.

Extreme programming is an Agile development methodologies based on iterative lifecycle, team collaboration and customer involvement. Usually XP team members carry out lot of framework driven automated testing. It is generally believed that there is no need of conventional software tester on XP team as developers and customer representative carry out the testing.