Brian Marick, a graduate of the University of Illinois, was a software testing

Software testing

Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software...

 specialist in the 90's, an Agile software development

Agile software development

Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams...

 specialist in the 00's, and concentrates on programming in Ruby

Ruby

A ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum . The red color is caused mainly by the presence of the element chromium. Its name comes from ruber, Latin for red. Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called sapphires...

 and Clojure

Clojure

Clojure |closure]]") is a recent dialect of the Lisp programming language created by Rich Hickey. It is a general-purpose language supporting interactive development that encourages a functional programming style, and simplifies multithreaded programming....

 in the 2nd decade of the 21st century. Marick is an author of the Agile Manifesto that launched the Agile software development

Agile software development

Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams...

movement, an early proponent of the Context-Driven school of testing, and author of three books.

External links

• Marick's web site
• Exploration Through Example - blog
• Artisanal Retrofuturism Crossed With Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism