Kent Beck

Kent Beck is one of the three creators of the agile process Extreme Programming and is the author of several books on Extreme Programming, patterns and Smalltalk. Beck introduced design patterns and CRC cards to software engineering with Ward Cunningham and created the JUnit unit testing framework along with Erich Gamma. Beck has an M.S. in computer science from the University of Oregon.

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Books

• Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN 0-134-76904-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.

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.

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