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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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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Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.
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A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.
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Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.
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Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.
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My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.