Erich Gamma is aSwisscomputer scientist and one of the four co-authors (referred to as "Gang of Four") of thesoftware engineering textbook,Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.

Gamma, along withKent Beck, co-wrote theJUnit software testing framework which helped create Test-Driven Development andinfluenced the whole software industry^{[according to whom?]}. He was the development team lead of theEclipse platform'sJava Development Tools (JDT), and worked on the IBM RationalJazz project.

In 2011 he joined theMicrosoft Visual Studio team and leads a development lab inZürich,Switzerland that has developed the "Monaco" suite of components for browser-based development, found in products such asAzure DevOps Services (formerly Visual Studio Team Services and Visual Studio Online),Visual Studio Code, Azure Mobile Services, Azure Web Sites, and theOffice 365 Development tools.^[3]

• GitHub account
• Works by Erich Gamma atOpen Library

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