Erich Gamma is a

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and one of the four co-authors (referred to as "

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") of the

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textbook, '' Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software''. Gamma, along with

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, co-wrote the

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software testing framework which helped create Test-Driven Development and . He was the development team lead of the

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platform's

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Development Tools
JDT
, and worked on the IBM Rationa
Jazz project
In 2011 he joined the

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team and leads a development lab in

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that has developed the "Monaco" suite of components for browser-based development, found in products such as Azure DevOps Services (formerly Visual Studio Team Services and Visual Studio Online),

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, Azure Mobile Services, Azure Web Sites, and the

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Development tools.

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