Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of Extreme Programming[1] and Test Driven Development. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto in 2001.[1]
Kent Beck has an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Oregon. He has pioneered software design patterns, the rediscovery of Test-driven development, as well as the commercial application of Smalltalk. Beck popularized CRC cards with Ward Cunningham and along with Erich Gamma created the JUnit unit testing framework.
Kent lives in Medford, Oregon where he makes goat cheese. [2]
Publications
- Books
- 1996. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Prentice Hall.
- 1996. Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk : A Sorted Collection. Cambridge University Press.
- 1999. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Addison-Wesley. Winner of the Jolt Productivity Award.
- 2000. Planning Extreme Programming. With Martin Fowler. Addison-Wesley.
- 2002. Test-Driven Development: By Example. Addison-Wesley. Winner of the Jolt Productivity Award.
- 2003. Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins. With Erich Gamma. Addison-Wesley.
- 2004. JUnit Pocket Guide. O'Reilly.
- 2005. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition. With Cynthia Andres. Addison-Wesley. Completely rewritten.
- 2008. Implementation Patterns. Addison-Wesley.
- Selected Papers
- 1987. "Using Pattern Languages for Object-Oriented Programs". With Ward Cunningham. OOPSLA'87.
- 1989. "A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking". With Ward Cunningham. OOPSLA'89.
- 1989. "Simple Smalltalk Testing: With Patterns". Origins of xUnit frameworks.
References
- ^ a b "Extreme Programming", Computerworld (online), 2005, webpage: Computerworld-appdev-92.
- ^ Twitter status: Sept. 23, 2009.
External links
- KentBeck on the WikiWikiWeb
- Kent Beck's page at the Three Rivers Institute
- [1] sample chapter of Kent's book, IMPLEMENTATION PATTERNS
- [2] TalkWare Podcast interview with Kent Beck
- [3] FLOSS Weekly interview with Kent Beck
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