Kent Beck, Date of Birth

    

Kent Beck

software engineer

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1961

Profession: writer, engineer, computer scientist, software engineer, programmer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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About Kent Beck

  • Kent Beck (born 1961) is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process.
  • Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document for agile software development.
  • Extreme and Agile methods are closely associated with Test-Driven Development (TDD), of which Beck is perhaps the leading proponent. Beck pioneered software design patterns, as well as the commercial application of Smalltalk.
  • He wrote the SUnit unit testing framework for Smalltalk, which spawned the xUnit series of frameworks, notably JUnit for Java, which Beck wrote with Erich Gamma.
  • Beck popularized CRC cards with Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the wiki. He lives in San Francisco, California and worked at social media company Facebook.

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