Kent Beck

Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of the Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development software development methodologies, also named agile software development. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto in 2001. He attended the University of Oregon between 1979 and 1987, receiving B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science. 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. Beck lives near Medford, Oregon and works at Facebook. Continue Reading »

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