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Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of Extreme Programming[1], developed while he was serving as project leader on Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation (C3), a long-term project for employee payroll that was canceled just under 4 years after it was started. 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.
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- Books
- 1996. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Prentice Hall.
- 1996. Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk : A Sorted Collection. Cambridge University Press.
- 2000. Planning Extreme Programming. With Martin Fowler. Addison-Wesley.
- 2002. Test-Driven Development: By Example. Addison-Wesley.
- 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. Addison-Wesley,
- 2008. Implementation Patterns. Addison-Wesley.
- Selected Papers
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