Martin Fowler

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Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler is an author and international speaker on software development, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming.

Martin Fowler started working with software in the early 80's^[1] and has written five books on the topic of software development (see Publications). In March 2000, he became Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, a systems integration and consulting company.^[1]

Fowler is a member of the Agile Alliance and helped create the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, along with more than 15 co-authors. He maintains a bliki, a mix of blog and wiki. He popularized the term Dependency Injection^[2] as a form of Inversion of Control.

Martin Fowler was born in Walsall, England, and lived in London a decade before moving to United States in 1994. He lives near Boston, Massachusetts in the suburb of Melrose^[1].

Publications

• Fowler, Martin. Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-89542-0. 
• Fowler, Martin; Kent Beck. Planning Extreme Programming. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-71091-9. 
• Fowler, Martin (September 2003). UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (3rd ed. ed.). Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-321-19368-7. 
• Fowler, Martin; Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, and Don Roberts (June 1999). Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-48567-2. 
• Fowler, Martin; David Rice, Matthew Foemmel, Edward Hieatt, Robert Mee, and Randy Stafford (November 2002). Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-321-12742-0.  (Jolt productivity award 2003 ^[3])

References

External links

• Home Page of Martin Fowler
• A Conversation with Martin Fowler
• The New Methodology, a paper on lightweight software development methodology
• ThoughtWorks, the consulting firm where Martin Fowler works
• Keynote at the RailsConf 2006
• Agile Alliance
• Dependency Injection