How Do World-Renowned Software Authorities View Test Automation and Continuous Testing?*
Good programmers write automated tests. Great programmers love test automation.
Let me start with a simple exercise: name a few world-renowned figures in software design and development—specifically those working in enterprise environments and real-world software jobs, rather than foundation-level pioneers like Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux and Git) or Yukihiro Matsumoto (creator of Ruby), who are legends in their own right.
(Write down your answers…)
Here’s my list—see how many overlap with yours.
1. Kent Beck
Kent Beck is widely known as the father of XP and Agile, co-author of the Agile Manifesto.
Kent Beck is recognized as one of the best software designers of our time. He co-created JUnit, a widely used automated unit testing framework for Java that was later adapted for many other languages as part of the XUnit family. He is also the author of Test-Driven Development by Example.
