eXtreme Programming (XP) Methodology Testing

I am about to undertake a project for university, and given the project scope I have decided to use XP/agile methodology. I have began with developing a use case diagram; gathering user stories for the first couple features.

What programming skills does someone in QA need to work effectively in extreme programming projects?

Well, the title really says it all, but to elaborate a bit, can you take a random, typically effective QA department and have them learn to work in an XP environment (with a learning curve to pick up the XP workflow of course) or would they need more programming skills to be effective? If so, what would they need to know?

Spending a good fortune on a certificate holding Scrum Master or a Veteran XP coach?

There is a very prestigious company that delivers a well-sold software about financial systems. It has more that 20 years of history, and is staffed with about 20 programmers and much larger number of managerial staff.
Dissatisfied customers have reported strange bugs and no one has a clue what is wrong, hard to read code, and customization is prohibitively expensive. In a word, the software is rotten.

Does a mature agile team requires any management?

After a recent heated debate over Scrum, I realized my problem is that I think of management as a quite unnecessary and redundant activity in a fully agile team. I believe a mature Agile team does not require management or any non-technical decision making process whatsoever. To my (apparently erring) eyes it is more than obvious that the only one suitable and capable of managing a mature development team is their coach (who is the most technically competent colleague with proper communication skills). I can’t imagine how a Scrum master can contribute to such a team.

What is the Reluctant ideas at Extreme Programming (XP)

Regarding Software Engineering, there are several obstacles for Extreme Programming, one of them is reluctant ideas. Not to accepting certain kind of idea.

Why has extreme programming (XP) gone out of date in favor of Agile, Kanban etc?

I like XP (extreme programming), especially the part where there are 2 programmers at the same screen, since a problem’s solution is often found more quickly if only you explain what you’re doing and pair programming forces you to explain what you’re doing.

Rewriting software using Agile methodologies

Suppose you have to rewrite an entire application using Agile methodologies, how would you do it?

Are Scrum and XP comparable things or are they used for different things

Are Scrum and XP comparable things or are they used for different things? what is the main features of each of them? how do they overlap?

Scrum got specific ways for testing software?

When reading Scrum Guide, as the official text for scrum, I find out there is no specific solution to provide software testing in scrum. (the only hint is on page15)

Is there some software to manage a XP Project? [closed]

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