Kent Beck

American software engineer · United States · Developers · Born 1961 · age 65

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2012“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.”In their wordsKent Beck in: Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant (2012) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code.Read the whole statement

2007“I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.”In their words15 July 2007Kent Beck As cited in: Giles Bowkett (2007) "Smalltalk, Outside The Ivory Tower?". at Giles Bowkett.blogspot.com July 15, 2007Read the whole statement

2000“The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change.”In their wordsp. 28Read the whole statement

1999“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”In their wordsp. 15Read the whole statement

“Often you'll see the same three or four data items together in lots of places: fields in a couple of classes, parameters in many method signatures.”In their wordsp. 81Read the whole statement

“The key is to test the areas that you are most worried about going wrong. That way you get the most benefit for your testing effort.”In their wordsp. 98.Read the whole statement

1961Born31 March 1961

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Kent Beck speaking in 2001

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Kent Beck

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I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
2012, Kent Beck in: Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant (2012) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code., Own words
I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.
Jul 15, 2007, Kent Beck As cited in: Giles Bowkett (2007) "Smalltalk, Outside The Ivory Tower?". at Giles Bowkett.blogspot.com July 15, 2007, Own words
The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change.
2000, p. 28, Own words

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About this person

Kent Beck 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. His work has shaped how software is designed, tested, and built for more than three decades, making him one of the most influential figures in the history of software engineering practice.

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