Kent Beck
Kent Beck
Kent Beckis an American software engineer and the creator of Extreme Programming, a software development methodology which eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document for agile software development. Extreme and Agile methods are closely associated with Test Driven Development, of which Beck is perhaps the leading proponent...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.
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The marketing of XP is very deliberate and conscious. Part of it is in co-opting the power of the media; I make sure I'm newsworthy from time to time. Part is in co-opting some of my publisher's ad budget.
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Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music.
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People are looking for software development that actually does something useful... People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered.
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Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.
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One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made worked nicely and which we would have done differently.
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I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.
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Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.
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The world is changing, and I believe that, if I want to stay employed as a programmer, I'm going to have to change with it.
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The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.
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If I'd had a charisma-ectomy in the beginning, XP would have gone nowhere.
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I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
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I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.
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Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.