Agile processes in software engineering and extreme programming : 8th international conference XP 2007 Como Italy June 18 22 2007 ; proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming XP 2007 held in Como Italy in June 2007. The 10 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with four poster papers 18 experience papers two research ideas and three panel summaries were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on managing agile processes extending agile methodologies teaching and introducing agile methodologies methods and tools empirical studies and methodology issue. Written for:Researchers and professionals Keywords: XP agile methodologies agile processes agile programming collaborative software development embedded software extreme programming pair programming risk management software development software engineering software management software process management software testing specification driven software development