Kent Beck
Contents
1. Biography
肯特·贝克(1961年-),美国著名软件工程师与作家,在软件工程方面有很大的贡献。他是 Smalltalk 软件的开发者,设计模式的先驱,测试驱动开发的支持者,也是极限编程的创始者之一。曾在 Facebook 工作,现在在 Gusto 工作。
曾为Smalltalk写作了 SUnit 单元测试架构,之后将这个架构移植到 Java,写作了 JUnit。

2. Publications
- 1996. Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk : A Sorted Collection. Cambridge * University Press. (ISBN 978-0521644372)
- 1997. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Prentice Hall. (ISBN 978-0134769042)
- 1999. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Addison-Wesley. Winner of the * Jolt Productivity Award. (ISBN 978-0321278654)
- 2000. Planning Extreme Programming. With Martin Fowler. Addison-Wesley. (ISBN 978-0201710915)
- 2002. Test-Driven Development by Example. Addison-Wesley. Winner of the Jolt Productivity Award. (ISBN 978-0321146533)
- 2003. Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins. With Erich Gamma. * Addison-Wesley. (ISBN 978-0321205759)
- 2004. JUnit Pocket Guide. O'Reilly. (ISBN 978-0596007430)
- 2004. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition. With Cynthia Andres. Addison-Wesley. Completely rewritten. (ISBN 978-0201616415)
- 2008. Implementation Patterns. Addison-Wesley. (ISBN 978-0321413093)