Kent Beck

Author: Kent Beck

Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of the Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development software development methodologies. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto in 2001.

Kent Beck has an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Oregon. He 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 lives in Medford, Oregon.

Publications

Publication period start: 2003
Number of co-authors: 2

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Ward Cunningham
1
Barry W. Boehm
1

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Ward Cunningham
3
Barry W. Boehm
39

Publications

Beck, Kent, Boehm, Barry W. (2003): Agility through Discipline: A Debate. In IEEE Computer, 36 (6) pp. 44-46. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/co/2003/06/r6044abs.htm

Beck, Kent (1999): Embracing Change with Extreme Programming. In IEEE Computer, 32 (10) pp. 70-77.

Beck, Kent (1994): Patterns and Software Development. In Dr Dobb's Journal, 19 (2) pp. 18-23.

Beck, Kent, Cunningham, Ward (1987). Using pattern languages for object-oriented programs. Tektronix Technical Report No. CR-87. Tektronix

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