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Extreme Programming & 3X Explained with Kent Beck

A catchup with Kent Beck, the creator of Extreme Programming, the pioneer of xUnit and author of numerous books including "Extreme Programming Explained" and "Test Driven Development".

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Feb 20, 2020 • 45 min read
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Summary

Kent Beck, the creator of extreme programming and the pioneer of xUnit and other multiple books, shares his knowledge of programming in this episode covering fundamental coding lessons that developers should pay attention to. For starters, he states that programmers are responsible for their codes to run and once they have accepted that responsibility, unit testing falls directly out of it. The programming ace also points out that extreme software programming is a social process and not an individual activity and in the coding world, nobody cares about certificates - they care about competence.

Takeaways

  • Extreme software programming is a social process and not an individual activity.
  • In software development, employees do not care much about the certificates but rather about the competence of the developer.

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