Here are some of their comments. Employers capable of attracting competent developers have no need for such nonsense. He continued that those that are would be biased anyways. The most impassioned response was that developers are so accustomed to desktop applications crashing that we have gotten sloppy as programmers. Downtime on an e-commerce server is quite a different matter.
Design there is nothing.
The direct consequence is the madness of redefining the testing and validation from a single and consistent process into a multitude of tests with results perhaps impossible to interpret consistently. Pairing, cliff hanging, team building, and other behavior-related techniques would never help to go from tinkering to engineering. Advocates of XP held a different opinion. One offered that the process produced lots of quality code but was stressful. We didn't get to do the whole project completely XP, though, which was a shame.