Kent Beck: "We thought we were just programming on an airplane" JUnit co-creator Kent Beck says a number of things convinced he and Erich Gamma to create a new revision of JUnit after a long hiatus, including TestNG and Java 5. Last week at JavaOne, Kent talked about JUnit 4 and gave a rare behind-the-scenes look at the lessons learned from creating one of the world's most popular free programs. J
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