Kent Beck Biography

Kent Beck is a software engineer and the inventor of extreme programming, as well as one of the 17 founding signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the foundational document for agile software development. Test-Driven Development (TDD), of which Beck is a major proponent, is strongly connected with extreme and agile methodologies. Extreme programming is a software development technique that favors a collaborative and iterative design process above rigid formal specifications. Beck was a pioneer in both software design concepts and the commercial use of Smalltalk. Beck co-wrote the SUnit unit testing framework for Smalltalk, which produced the xUnit series of frameworks, including JUnit for Java. CRC cards were popularised by Beck and Ward Cunningham, the founder of the wiki. Kent is also the author of a number of programming-related publications, including Implementation Patterns and Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. He worked for the social media firm Facebook and resides in San Francisco, California.

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