Kent Beck
Kent Beck (* 1961 ) is an American software developer. He is one of the three founders of the software development process called Extreme Programming (XP) and the author of several books.
He is considered the inventor of the Smalltalk test framework SUnit , which he ported to Java together with Erich Gamma and published as JUnit . He is the founder and director of the Three Rivers Institute . Beck is also one of the authors and initial signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development .
Works
- JUnit - short & good . ISBN 3-89721-507-1 .
- Test-Driven Development 'by Example' . ISBN 0-321-14653-0 .
- Small talk. Practical utility models . ISBN 3-8272-9549-1 .
- Extreme programming. The manifest . ISBN 3-8273-1709-6 .
- with Erich Gamma : Contributing to Eclipse . ISBN 0-321-20575-8 .
- and together with Martin Fowler : Extreme Programming plan . ISBN 3-8273-1832-7 .
- Implementation Patterns. The way to simpler and cheaper programming . Addison-Wesley, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8273-2644-7 .
Web links
Commons : Kent Beck - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Entry in the WardsWiki (English)
- JUnit homepage (English)
- Homepage of the Three Rivers Institute (English)
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| SURNAME | Beck, Kent |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American software developer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |