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	Kent Beck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kent Beck is the creator of Extreme Programming and is one of the founders of the Agile Manifesto.
		Beck popularised CRC cards with Ward Cunningham and created the JUnit unit testing framework along with Erich Gamma.
		Beck has an M.S. in computer science from the University of Oregon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kent_Beck (117 words)

	AGILE IN ACTION: Kent Beck: Developer Testing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kent talks about how the developer tests produced by test-driven development directly contribute to the health of software, and how they can give a developer a sense of accountability without apportioning blame.
		Kent is interested in developing healthy and quality software emphasising that health is not the same as quality.
		Kent writes developer tests for himself because they make his world run more smoothly while developing and they enable him to think about the design of his code while he's working on it.
	www.think-box.co.uk /blog/2005/08/kent-beck-developer-testing.html (273 words)

	Software Dioxide: XP and Culture Change — Opening Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beck lists examples such as writing unit tests, aligning design back to what it should be whenever it diverges, integrating changes with the latest release code, and using pair programming.
		Beck explains that XP shifts responsibility for the scope of the delivered system from technical to business folks, while technical persons have to ensure that the system functions correctly and that they provide accurate and honest progress reports.
		Beck says that while XP has changed the way of doing and accurately predicted the consequences of a staffing change, there is need to change the way the executive sees things.
	www.softwaredioxide.com /Channels/ConView.asp?id=7117 (282 words)

	Working smarter, not harder: An interview with Kent Beck
		Kent, born and raised in Silicon Valley but now residing in Oregon, hails from a family in which technology permeated the household.
		Beck: In the first part of 1996, I was a consultant for Smalltalk performance problems.
		Kent Beck is the founder and director of the Three Rivers Institute.
	www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/java/library/j-beck (2525 words)

	IT Conversations: Kent Beck - Developer Testing
		Kent Beck is widely recognized as the father of eXtreme Programming and JUnit.
		Kent's other contributions to software development include patterns for software, and the rediscovery of test-first programming.
		Beck's approach of "sit here with me and listen to my thoughts on a simple, representative problem" is perfectly adequate.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail301.html (576 words)

	ITworld.com - Extreme Programming Explained
		Kent: Tom, I'm curious when you say mainstream, I think of I should be able to go anywhere and see people doing these things and so compilers are mainstream and Java is mainstream, but maybe that's my perspective versus yours, but it doesn't seem from that point of view that XP is at all mainstream
		Kent: I would agree that there's a sense that if you do it well, if you're really focused and intense, then at the end of a good solid work day, the most value you can bring to your team is to get some rest.
		Kent: I think to the degree that religious or dogmatic sense of you have to be doing all these things or you don't get your gold star is really my insecurities coming through.
	www.itworld.com /AppDev/1246/transcript_kentbeck050506 (3785 words)

	Article info : e-Talk Radio: Beck, Kent, 5 December 2000
		Kent: So the biggest difference between stories and use cases is one of the balance of political power.
		Kent: Well, it certainlyOne of the things I’ve discovered about XP is that it really People see their fears in it, oftentimes.
		Kent: I would say that Jim Highsmith’s adaptive software development is kind of the manifesto for a whole community of people who are all looking for ways of focusing people on programming, instead of programming on people.
	www.stickyminds.com /se/S2528.asp (4954 words)

	Interview with Kent Beck and Martin Fowler > Interview with Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
		Kent: We leave the plans on obviously worthless bits of paper to remind everyone that the plans are not the point; the act of planning is what creates the value.
		Kent: The technical aspects of XP are really preparation for handing control over the scope and priorities of the project to someone with a business perspective.
		Kent Beck and Martin Fowler are the authors of Planning Extreme Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0-201-71091-9).
	www.informit.com /articles/article.asp?p=20972&rl=1 (1739 words)

	Book Review: Kent Beck: Extreme Programming Explained - Embrace Change
		Kent Beck has written one of the most controversial books to hit software engineering in recent years.
		Beck's insistence on elegant code and disciplined testing is however far from that.
		Beck is no stylist with the english language; this is a book written with simple directness, and based on several years of experience.
	i.f.alexander.users.btopenworld.com /reviews/beck.htm (929 words)

	XP Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the early 1990s a man named Kent Beck was thinking about better ways to develop software.
		Kent contemplated on what made software simple to create and what made it difficult.
		What Kent came to realize is that there are four dimensions along which one can improve any software project.
	www.extremeprogramming.org /Kent.html (137 words)

	Agitar Software: Kent Beck, Creator of JUnit and Pioneer of eXtreme Programming, Becomes Agitar Software Fellow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kent Beck is a recognized industry visionary and innovator in software quality.
		Kent Beck adds: “Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.
		Beck is the author/co-author of Contributing to Eclipse, Test-Driven Development: By Example, Extreme Programming Explained, Planning Extreme Programming, The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and the forthcoming JUnit Pocket Guide.
	www.agitar.com /news/20040802-kent_beck_creator_of_junit_and_pioneer_of_extreme.html (793 words)

	Kent Beck: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kent Beck: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		Kent Beck is one of the three creators of the agile process extreme programming Extreme Programming quick summary:
		Extreme programming (xp) is a method or approach to software engineering and the most popular of several agile software development methodologies....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ke/kent_beck.htm (382 words)

	William C. Wake's Blog: Kent Beck's "Programming Intensive" Workshop
		Kent Beck's workshop was a chance to spend a few days programming and thinking about programming.
		As primitive as it was, Kent's children gave it a thumbs up.
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	weblogs.java.net /blog/wwake/archive/2005/02/kent_becks_prog.html (365 words)

	SS > NF reviews > Kent Beck
		Kent Beck has distilled much of his wisdom and experience of writing Smalltalk code into this book of guidelines.
		Kent Beck has collected together his Smalltalk publications from journals such as OOPSLA and Object Magazine, and his famous columns from Smalltalk Report, with introductory comments putting them in historical perspective.
		Beck makes an excellent case for XP -- which he has used successfully in practice.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/bib/nf/b/beck.htm (799 words)

	Gunjan Doshi: Kent Beck violates rules of TDD? Does he really?
		When I read this post for the first time, I concluded that Kent Beck broke his own rule.
		In fact, someone immediately questioned Kent about the impact of this posting on the community.
		Kent tried for several hours, to write one test before giving up.
	www.gunjandoshi.com /mtarchives/2005/04/kent_beck_viola.html (312 words)

	Kent Beck, Creator of JUnit and Pioneer of eXtreme Programming, Becomes Agitar Software Fellow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beck to accelerate Agitar Software's mission to make developer testing a ubiquitous software development practice MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Agitar Software, the leader in developer testing for the enterprise, today announced that Kent Beck has become an Agitar Software Fellow.
		Agitar would not exist today without the foundation laid by Beck and JUnit." Kent Beck adds: "Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.
		In addition Kent will be instrumental in making sure that Agitar solutions are perfectly adapted to XP, which we support along with all other major software development processes." About Agitar's Products Agitator intelligently exercises Java code to discover its behavior and presents observations to the developer.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-03-2004/0002224232&EDATE= (786 words)

	Musings of a Software Development Manager » Blog Archive » Kent Beck Cringing
		Listening to an interview with Kent Beck on Team Agile I got a much better understanding of how his ideas of changed.
		I felt back when there were lots of debates over XP was an all or nothing affair that much of the dogmatic arguments about having to do it all or it wasn’t XP were really meant to more as a defensive gesture.
		This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 8th, 2006 at 6:35 am by Ed Gibbs and is filed under software development, test driven development, podcasts.
	edgibbs.com /2006/02/08/kent-beck-cringing (374 words)

	Extreme Programming vs. Interaction Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kent Beck is known as the father of "extreme programming," a process created to help developers design and build software that effectively meets user expectations.
		Alan Cooper is the prime proponent of interaction design, a process with similar goals but different methodology.
		Beck: That was exactly the problem one of my clients faced last week.
	www.fawcette.com /interviews/beck_cooper (284 words)

	Cutter Consortium :: Kent Beck
		Kent Beck is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium’s Agile Project Management Practice; a regular contributor to Cutter IT Journal, including guest editor for a two-part series on Extreme Programming (XP) and culture change; and a keynoter, panelist, and workshop leader at the annual Cutter Summit.
		Beck is the founder of XP and author of numerous books, including Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and with coauthor Martin Fowler, Planning Extreme Programming.
		Beck has pioneered CRC cards, the HotDraw drawing editor framework, the xUnit family of testing frameworks, patterns for software development, and the rediscovery of test-first programming.
	www.cutter.com /consultants/beckk.html (281 words)

	Amazon.ca: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beck does acknowledge unbelievers like me, but requires their exile in order to maintain the group-think of the X-cult.
		Beck has managed to write a book based upon his own opinions and theories, not of which are based upon facts or solid research, and sell this idea as a development methodology/paradigm shift.
		Beck writes about the paired-programming aspect is contrary to common sense and anyone even the slightest inkling of perception into the personality traits of developers.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0321278658 (1248 words)

	Bloglines \| Citations
		He’s one of the Gang of Four, coauthor of JUnit (with Kent Beck), and a leader in the Eclipse project.
		Kent Beck´s presentation recorded at the Developer Testing Forum in Palo Alto, CA in November 2004 that is downloadable from ITConversations.
		I recently stumbled on a speech by Kent Beck about developer testing in which he compares and contrasts software quality and software health.
	www.bloglines.com /citations?siteid=514240&itemid=48 (893 words)

	Software Dioxide: Kent Beck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kent Beck, one of the most well-known names in the field of extreme programming (XP) and is considered the father of extreme programming.
		Kent has been a programmer, primarily in Smalltalk, for what he calls "17 long, weary years".
		He is actively working in XP and has authored/ co-authored books on extreme programming and in other areas of his interest.
	www.softwaredioxide.com /Channels/ConView.asp?id=5553 (86 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Test Driven Development (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Example-driven teaching; Kent Becks step-by-step instruction will have you using TDD to further your projects Technology- Quite simply, test-driven development is meant to eliminate fear in application development.
		Author Biography- Kent Beck is a highly acclaimed software developer who is considered one of the most creative and innovative leaders in the software industry.
		Kent's first example of TDD, while fairly trivial, outlines all the key points in how to practice TDD properly.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0321146530 (1564 words)

	JUnit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language.
		Created by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma, JUnit is one, and arguably the most successful, of the xUnit family of frameworks that originated with Kent Beck's SUnit.
		Experience gained with JUnit has been important in the development of test-driven development, and as a result, some knowledge of JUnit is often presumed in discussions of test-driven development, for example in the book Test-Driven Development: By Example, ISBN 0-321-14653-0 by Kent Beck.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Junit (199 words)

	Extreme Programming - XP Seminar
		Coming to NZ for the first time to lead this conference is Kent Beck (USA), who is considered the top XP exponent in the world.
		As Mr Beck worked on this benighted venture, known as Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation (C3), he formulated a set of directions for keeping code 'elegantly written'.
		Managers are welcome to stay for Kent's address on "Managing an XP Contract" and for the following address by Hesketh Henry on "Optional Scope Contracts".
	www.xp.co.nz /XP_Seminar.htm (378 words)

	DBLP: Kent Beck
		Kent Beck, James Coplien, Ron Crocker, Lutz Dominick, Gerard Meszaros, Frances Paulisch, John M. Vlissides: Industrial Experience with Design Patterns.
		Kent Beck, Ralph E. Johnson: Patterns Generate Architectures.
		Kent Beck, Raghu Raghavan, Wilf R. LaLonde, Daniel Weinreb: Panel: Experiences with Reusability.
	www.sigmod.org /dblp/db/indices/a-tree/b/Beck:Kent.html (383 words)

	License Agreement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kent Beck and Erich Gamma licenses the Software to you on an "AS IS" basis, without warranty of any kind.
		You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using the Software and assume all risks associated with the use and distribution of this Software, including but not limited to the risks of program errors, damage to or loss of data, programs or equipment, and unavailability or interruption of operations.
		Kent Beck and Erich Gamma will not be liable for the loss of, or damage to, your records or data, or any damages claimed by you based on a third party claim.
	nunit.sourceforge.net /doc/junitlicence.html (307 words)

	Developer Testing: Kent Beck to Discuss eXtreme Programming and Developer Accountability
		On Tuesday June 7th, Kent Beck will discuss his latest insights on eXtreme Programming and Developer Accountability in a webinar organized by Agitar Software.
		Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres recently released the 2nd edition of their book ‘Extreme Programming Explained’.
		In this webinar Kent will talk about his new insights since the first book, leading him to write the second one.
	www.developertesting.com /archives/month200505/20050527-KentBeckDeveloperAccountability.html (281 words)

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