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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
American software engineer and consultant
Rebecca J. Wirfs-Brock (born in Portland, Oregon) is an American software engineer and consultant in object-oriented programming and object-oriented design, the founder of the information technology consulting firm Wirfs-Brock Associates, and inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design, the first behavioral approach to object design.[citation needed]
Wirfs-Brock holds a B.A.
in computer and information science and psychology from the University of Oregon.[1] She worked at Tektronix for 15 years as a software engineer before moving on to Instantiations (founded by her husband Allen Wirfs-Brock), which was acquired by Digitalk which merged with Parc Place Systems to become ParcPlace-Digitalk in She was the Chief Technologist for the professional services organization of a Smalltalk language vendor.
She holds a U.S. Patent #4,, "Apparatus for Presenting Image Information for Display Graphically" together with Warren Dodge.
Wirfs-Brock first coined the "-driven" meme in an OOPSLA paper she co-authored with Brian Wilkerson.[2] Before that time, the most prevalent way of structuring objects was based on entity-relationship modeling ideas (popularized by James Rumbaugh, Steve Mellor and Sally Shlaer).
She wrote about object role stereotypes in in a Smalltalk Report article and this influenced the UML notion of stereotypes. Her invention of the conversational (two-column) form of use cases was then popularized by Larry Constantine.
Rebecca wirfs brock biography of christopher columbus The Responsible Designer Blog Topical Collections Rebecca's Books Papers and Essays Presentations Podcasts, Interviews, and Chats More about Rebecca I'm Rebecca Wirfs-Brock. This is where you will find my current research, musings, and many contributions to software design and development in the form of books, articles, blog posts, essays.Most of the more recent "driven" design approaches acknowledge their roots and the influence of RDD, of which class-responsibility-collaboration cards are one popular technique. She was the design columnist for IEEE Software until December
Bibliography
- Designing Object-Oriented Software, with Brian Wilkerson and Lauren Wiener, Prentice-Hall, , ISBN&#;
- Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations, with Alan McKean.
Addison-Wesley, , ISBN&#;