Kent Beck

Kent_Beck. (1961 - ). American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming.

Noteworthy

• A co-author of the Agile Manifesto.
• Creator of extreme programming.
• Pioneered software design patterns.
• Wrote the SUnit unit testing framework for Smalltalk, a precursor of JUnit for Java.
• Book: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2000). With Martin Fowler.
• Book: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2004). With Cynthia Andres.
• Book: Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design (2023).

See Also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck
• https://agilemanifesto.org/authors.html
• Kent_Beck_quotes
• Agile_Manifesto_Signatories_quotes