Kent Beck
Kent Beck | |
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 Beck at a workshop in 2006 | |
| Born | 1961 (age 64–65) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | University of Oregon |
| Known for | Extreme programming, Software design patterns, JUnit |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Software engineering |
| Workplaces | Gusto |
| Website | kentbeck |
Kent Beck (born 1961) is an American software engineer, author, and consultant best known for creating test-driven development (TDD), founding extreme programming (XP), and co-creating the JUnit testing framework. He was one of the seventeen original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document for agile software development.