Kent Beck
Also known as KentBeck
Software engineer who created extreme programming and test-driven development.
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Meta (engineer at Facebook, 2011–2018)
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- Kent Beck is an American software engineer and author.
- He developed extreme programming (XP) on Chrysler's payroll project, which he joined in 1996, and set it out in Extreme Programming Explained (1999).
- He wrote Test-Driven Development: By Example and released the JUnit testing framework with Erich Gamma in 2000.
- In 2001 he was one of the 17 signatories of the Agile Manifesto.
- He worked at Facebook from 2011 to 2018.
- He writes the Tidy First? newsletter and the book series of the same name.
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- Studied
- University of Oregon, B.S. and M.S. in computer and information science, 1979 to 19871
- Extreme programming
- Developed it on Chrysler's payroll project, which he joined in 1996; Extreme Programming Explained, 19991
- Test-driven development
- Test-Driven Development: By Example1
- JUnit
- Released with Erich Gamma, 20001
- Agile Manifesto
- One of its 17 signatories, 20012
- 2011 to 20181
- Books with Martin Fowler
- Refactoring (1999; second edition 2018) and Planning Extreme Programming (2000)1
- Recent books
- Tidy First? (2023)1
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