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Kent Beck is the creator of [[Extreme Programming]].

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

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

Kent Beck pioneered software patterns, and is the creator of [[Extreme Programming]]. He also pioneered 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 is one of the signers of the [[Agile Manifesto]].

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

==Links==
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck
*http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?KentBeck
*http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WardAndKent

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