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Kent Beck es ingeniero de software estadounidense, uno de los creadores de las metodologías de desarrollo de software de programación extrema [1]​ y el desarrollo guiado por pruebas , también llamados metodología ágil. Beck fue uno de los 17 firmantes originales del Manifiesto Ágil en 2001[1]​.

Beck posee un máster en ciencias en el área de ciencias de la computación de la Universidad de Oregon.



Fue pionero en patrones de diseño de software, el redescubrimiento del test-driven development, así como también del la aplicación comercial de Smalltalk. Con Ward Cunningham popularizó la metodología de tarjetas CRC, y con Erich Gamma el framework de pruebas unitarias para Java conocido como JUnit.

Kent vive en Medford, Oregon y actualmente trabaja para Facebook.[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 31. marzo 1961
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“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

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Fuente: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 15

“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.”

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Kent Beck in: Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant (2012) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code.

“Refactoring (noun) : a change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing the observable behavior of the software.
To refactor (verb) : to restructure software by applying a series of refactorings without changing the observable behavior of the software.”

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Fuente: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 33-43 as cited in: Militiadis Lytras, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, Ernesto Damiani (2011) Semantic Web Personalization and Context Awareness. p. 111

“Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.”

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Fuente: Extreme Programming Explained (2000), p. 31

“When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.”

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Fuente: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 88

“I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.”

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Kent Beck As cited in: Giles Bowkett (2007) " Smalltalk, Outside The Ivory Tower? http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.nl/2007/07/smalltalk-outside-ivory-tower.html". at Giles Bowkett.blogspot.com July 15, 2007

“The key is to test the areas that you are most worried about going wrong. That way you get the most benefit for your testing effort. It is better to write and run incomplete tests than not to run complete tests”

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Fuente: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 98.

“The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.”

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Fuente: Extreme Programming Explained (2000), p. 28

“The new concept of Extreme Programming (XP) is gaining more and more acceptance, partially because it is controversial, but primarily because it is particularly well-suited to help the small software development team succeed… XP is controversial, many software development sacred cows don't make the cut in XP; it forces practitioners to take a fresh look at how software is developed.”

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Extreme Programming Explained (2000)

“When you find you have to add a feature to a program, and the program's code is not structured in a convenient way to add the feature, first refactor the program to make it easy to add the feature, then add the feature.”

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Fuente: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 7

“Often you'll see the same three or four data items together in lots of places: fields in a couple of classes, parameters in many method signatures. Bunches of data that hang around together really ought to be made into their own object.”

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Fuente: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 81