作者背景：
Kent Beck，在俄勒冈大学获得计算机科学硕士学位。
极限编程的创始人，是敏捷开发17个最初申明人之一，倡导了
测试驱动开发，和Eric Gamma共同创建了JUnit单元测试框架，1999年和2003年两度获得Jolt奖。
著作列表：
书：
* Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN 0-13-476904-X.
* Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk : A Sorted Collection. Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-64437-2.
* Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-61641-6. Second edition 2005 with Cynthia Andres. ISBN 0-321-27865-8. (Jolt productvity award 1999 [2])
* Planning Extreme Programming. With Martin Fowler. Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-71091-9.
* Test-Driven Development: By Example. Addison-Wesley, 2002. ISBN 0-321-14653-0. (Jolt productvity award 2003 [3])
* Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins. With Erich Gamma. Addison-Wesley, 2003. ISBN 0-321-20575-8.
* JUnit Pocket Guide. O'Reilly, 2004. ISBN 0-596-00743-4.
* Implementation Patterns. Addison-Wesley, 2008. ISBN 0-321-41309-1.
论文：
* Using Pattern Languages for Object-Oriented Programs. With Ward Cunningham. OOPSLA'87.
* A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking. With Ward Cunningham. OOPSLA'89.
* Simple Smalltalk
Testing: With Patterns. Origins of xUnit frameworks.
