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Kent Beck is the creator of Extreme Programming and is one of the signers of the Agile Manifesto .

Beck has pioneered Software Patterns , the rediscovery of Test-driven Development and the commercial application of Smalltalk . Beck popularised CRC Card s with Ward Cunningham and created the JUnit unit testing framework along with Erich Gamma .

Kent Beck has an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University Of Oregon .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books

''Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns''. Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN 0-13-476904-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 2005 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.

''Implementation Patterns''. Addison-Wesley, 2006. ISBN 0-321-41309-1.

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.

'' Simple Smalltalk Testing: With Patterns ''. Origins of xUnit frameworks.

EXTERNAL LINKS

on the WikiWikiWeb

Kent Beck's page at the Three Rivers Institute