Kent Beck is the founder and director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI). His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection innovation and communication. His contributions to software development include patterns for software the rediscovery of test-first programming the xUnit family of developer testing tools and Extreme Programming. He currently divides his time between writing programming and coaching. Beck is the author/co-author of  Implementation Patterns  Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 2nd Edition  Contributing to Eclipse  Test-Driven Development: By Example  Planning Extreme Programming  Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns and the  JUnit Pocket Guide.   He received his B. S. and M. S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.  . Language: English