Kent Beck is the creator of Extreme Programming and is one of the founders of the Agile Manifesto. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Agile software development is a conceptual framework for undertaking software engineering projects. ...

Beck has written on software patterns and Smalltalk. Beck popularised CRC cards with Ward Cunningham and created the JUnit unit testing framework along with Erich Gamma. Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective, programming language designed at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, Adele Goldberg, and others during the 1970s, influenced by Sketchpad and Simula. ... Class-Responsibility-Collaboration cards (CRC cards) are a brainstorming tool used in the design of object-oriented software. ... Oh Yes, Hes Ward Cunningham! Howard Cunningham redirects here. ... JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language. ... Erich Gamma is one of the four authors (Gang of Four) of the seminal Design Patterns book. ...

Beck has an M.S. in computer science from the University of Oregon. A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ... Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... The University of Oregon (UO) is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. ...

Bibliography

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.

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Selected 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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External links

• KentBeck on the WikiWikiWeb
• Kent Beck's page at the Three Rivers Institute
• Information about the group Kent