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Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of the Extreme Programming [ 1] 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.[ 1]
He attended the University of Oregon between 1979 and 1987, receiving B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer and information science .[ 2] software design patterns , the rediscovery of test-driven development , 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 .
Beck lives near Medford, Oregon and works at Facebook .[ 3]
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^ a b "Extreme Programming", Computerworld (online), 2005, webpage: Computerworld-appdev-92 . ^ Beck, Kent. "Kent Beck" . LinkedIn. Retrieved March 5, 2012 . ^ "Where I work (Facebook)..."
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