He does appear to completely lose the plot in several instances, eg. Extreme Programming is all about drinking Jolt, snowboarding and all night hacking sessions

He does appear to completely lose the plot in several instances, eg. Extreme Programming is all about drinking Jolt, snowboarding and all night hacking sessions, now can we all get on with some more testing please. It would also be easier to take him seriously if his paper wasn't riddled with grammatical errors. Holding up programmers as lazy when you haven't proof read your publication properly does seem a little odd. (I notice that it's marked as an "unpublished draft" on his site, but if you're going to put it up on the web I figure it's fair game). I also particularly like the way that he advocates planning in advance, doing things right, etc. but then can't get the budget for a decent test environment (for their real time OS no less) in http://www2.fsmlabs.com/~cort/publications/sparky/sparky.pdf http://www2.fsmlabs.com/~cort/publications/sparky/sparky.pdf and has to cobble together a PC from spare parts.