Buu Nguyen's Blog

1. The Code is the Design

At university, most of us are taught that the development of a software should go through the following phases: requirement specification, design, construction (or coding), and testing.  By gathering system requirements (e.g. from the clients, market researches etc.), analysts would come up with a bunch of functional and supplementary requirement documents, use case model and specifications during the requirement specification phase.  Read more…

In my opinion, YAGNI is one of the most misleading practices of eXtreme Programming because it can easily be used as an excuse by some designers to create simplistic and rigid design.  Read more…