CSE graduate enrichment seminar

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                           Extreme Programming: 
            Software Engineering Applied to Empirical CS Research

                          by Walfredo Cirne (CSE)
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                        brought to you in part by 
                   Graduate Student Association at UCSD


                            AP&M room 4882
                       Wednesday 3/7/01 at noon


Prototypes and simulators place a key role in empirical Computer Science
research.  As a result, the researcher spends a lot of time developing and
modifying software.  Such endeavor is complicated by the lack of clear
specs.  After all, by the very nature of investigation, the specs of
research software is not well established. 

This talk describes Extreme Programming, a very practical software
engineering methodology designed for small groups working on not clearly
specified software. These characteristics of Extreme Programming thus make
it very useful for software development in the research setting.