Cedric Beust
Cedric Beust is a software engineer currently employed at Google and a software technology author. He is the co-author of two books and the creator of the TestNG Java testing framework.
Beust holds a PhD in computer science from the Universite of Sophia Antipolis in France. His 1994 thesis was called "Conception d'outils destines a assister au developpement d'applications distribuees" and covered subjects sur as CORBA, Microsoft COM, X Window and Motif.
In 2000, Beust joined WebLogic, recently acquired by BEA Systems, and he made major contributions to their flaghip product WebLogic Server in the area of EJB's and clustering. In 2004, Beust was hired by Google to help the search company with its nascent Java efforts .
After leading the Gmail mobile team for two years, Beust announced the launch of the first Gmail mobile client in 2006 and he then joined the brand new Android team which shipped its first device in 2008 .
Open source
In 2004, Beust announced version 1.0 of a new open source testing framework called TestNG . This framework pioneered features such as test groups, built-in parallel testing, exception support, time outs, and it was also the first to leverage the then brand new Java annotations . Most of these features were later picked up by other testing frameworks such as JUnit and NUnit.
Bibliography
- "Professional Java Server Programming J2EE, 1.3 Edition", by Cedric Beust and multiple authors, Wrox, 2001, ISBN 1861005377
- "Next Generation Java Testing", by Cedric Beust and Hani Suleiman, Prentice Hall, 2007, ISBN 0321503104