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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Essential skills for the agile developer : a guide to better programming and design / Alan
Shalloway . . . [et al.].
               p. cm.
     Includes index.
     ISBN 978-0-321-54373-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1.  Agile software development.  I. Shalloway, Alan.
     QA76.76.D47E74 2011
     005.1—dc23
                                                                                                                        2011023686

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ISBN-13: 978-0-321-54373-8
ISBN-10:        0-321-54373-4
Text printed in the United States on recycled paper at RR Donnelley in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
First printing, August 2011