Kent Beck

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Kent Beck is 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. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto in 2001.^[1]

Beck 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 Beck has an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Oregon.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Books 1.2 Selected Papers 2 See also 3 Notes 4 External links

[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 2005 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, 2008. 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.
• Simple Smalltalk Testing: With Patterns. Origins of xUnit frameworks.

[edit] See also

• Ward Cunningham - contributed to development of Extreme Programming.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} "Extreme Programming", Computerworld (online), 2005, webpage: Computerworld-appdev-92.

[edit] External links

• KentBeck on the WikiWikiWeb
• Kent Beck's page at the Three Rivers Institute
• [1] sample chapter of Kent's book, IMPLEMENTATION PATTERNS