Kent Beck
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Kent Beck is the creator of Extreme Programming and is one of the founders of the Agile Manifesto.
Beck has written on software patterns, Test-driven development and Smalltalk. Beck popularised CRC cards with Ward Cunningham and created the JUnit unit testing framework along with Erich Gamma.
Kent Beck has an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Oregon.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Books
- Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN 0-13-476904-X.
- Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk : A Sorted Collection. Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-64437-2.
- Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-61641-6. Second edition 2004 with Cynthia Andres. ISBN 0-321-27865-8.
- Planning Extreme Programming. With Martin Fowler. Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-71091-9.
- Test-Driven Development: By Example. Addison-Wesley, 2002. ISBN 0-321-14653-0.
- Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins. With Erich Gamma. Addison-Wesley, 2003. ISBN 0-321-20575-8.
- JUnit Pocket Guide. O'Reilly, 2004. ISBN 0-596-00743-4.
- Implementation Patterns. Addison-Wesley, 2006. ISBN 0-321-41309-1.
[edit] Selected Papers
- Using Pattern Languages for Object-Oriented Programs. With Ward Cunningham. OOPSLA'87.
- A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking. With Ward Cunningham. OOPSLA'89.
[edit] External links
- KentBeck on the WikiWikiWeb
- Kent Beck's page at the Three Rivers Institute
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