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Acknowledgments
We owe a debt of gratitude to Elisabeth Hendrickson for her contribution of the ???Exploratory Testing???
section. Her expertise and writing skill made the material sparkle. For more of Elisabeth??™s writing, visit
http://www.testobsessed.com/.
We stole good ideas wherever we could find them. Kent Beck, Ron Jeffries, and Ward Cunningham
each had a hand in the ideas that led to XP, and we stole liberally from those. In addition to XP itself,
Kent Beck introduced us to the idea of XP practices as ?©tudes. Ward Cunningham introduced us to the
notion of technical debt, a concept we use heavily. Brian Marick??™s series of essays, ???Agile Testing
Directions,???* influenced our thoughts on agile testing and the role of testers on agile teams.
James had the opportunity to work with Joshua Kerievsky on an Industrial XP (IXP)?? project for half a
year.
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