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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Facebook Engineering Process with Kent Beck (Repeat)
Description: Originally published August 28, 2019Kent Beck is a legendary figure in the world of software engineering. Kent was an early advocate of Test-Driven Development (TDD), and popularized the idea of writing unit tests before writing code that would satisfy those unit tests. A unit test isolates and tests a small piece of functionality within a large piece of software. Practitioners of Test-Driven Development write tens or hundreds of tests in order to cover a large variety of cases that could potentially occur within their software.When Kent Beck joined Facebook in 2011, he was 50 years o...