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Kent Beck is on the list of [[InvitedAuthors]] whom [[Ward Cunningham]] first solicited to contribute to [[WikiWikiWeb]] because they were interested in [[PatternLanguage]].

==Biography==
Kent Beck is the creator of Extreme Programming and is one of the signers of the [[Agile Manifesto]].

Beck has pioneered software patterns, the rediscovery of Test-driven development and the commercial application of Smalltalk. Beck popularised CRC cards with Ward Cunningham and created the JUnit unit testing framework along with Erich Gamma.

Kent Beck has an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Oregon.

He has written many books and papers on the subject of Smalltalk and Extreme Programming.

==Links==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck

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