- Kent Beck
Kent Beck is the creator of
Extreme Programming , developed while he was serving as project leader onChrysler Comprehensive Compensation (C3), a long-term project for employee payroll. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of theAgile Manifesto in2001 . "Extreme Programming", "Computerworld" (online), 2005, webpage: [http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/appdev/story/0,10801,66192,00.html Computerworld-appdev-92] .]Beck has pioneered software design patterns, the rediscovery of
Test-driven development , as well as the commercial application ofSmalltalk . Beck popularizedCRC card s withWard Cunningham and along withErich Gamma created theJUnit unit testing framework.Kent Beck has an
M.S. degree incomputer science from theUniversity of Oregon .__TOC__Bibliography
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 edition2005 with Cynthia Andres. ISBN 0-321-27865-8. (Jolt productvity award 1999 [ [http://ddj.com/joltawards/prev_bks.htm#1999 Jolt winners 1999] ] )
*"Planning Extreme Programming". WithMartin Fowler . Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-71091-9.
*"Test-Driven Development: By Example". Addison-Wesley, 2002. ISBN 0-321-14653-0. (Jolt productvity award 2003 [ [http://www.ddj.com/architect/184414991?pgno=6 Jolt winners 2003] ] )
*"Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins". WithErich 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.elected Papers
*" [http://c2.com/doc/oopsla87.html Using Pattern Languages for Object-Oriented Programs] ". With Ward Cunningham.
OOPSLA '87.
*" [http://c2.com/doc/oopsla89/paper.html A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking] ". With Ward Cunningham. OOPSLA'89.
*" [http://www.xprogramming.com/testfram.htm Simple Smalltalk Testing: With Patterns] ". Origins of xUnit frameworks.ee also
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Ward Cunningham - contributed to development ofExtreme Programming .Notes
External links
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* [http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/Kent%20Beck.htm Kent Beck's page] at the Three Rivers Institute
* [http://www.informit.com/content/images/9780321413093/samplechapter/BeckCh_0321413091.pdf] sample chapter of Kent's book, IMPLEMENTATION PATTERNS
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