Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

Rebecca J. Wirfs -Brock ( born 1953 in Portland, Oregon) is an American business consultant for object -oriented programming and object-oriented design. She is the inventor of the first behavior- oriented approach to object design and IT firm Wirfs -Brock Associates has established.

Rebecca Wirfs -Brock in 1989 set a paper on the OOPSLA, which she created with Brian Wilkerson, called the " driven" meme in the world. Until then objects were usually carried out by entity-relationship models ( ERM) structured, which have become popular by James Rumbaugh, Steve Mellor and Sally Shlaer.

She wrote in a 1992 report on Smalltalk object -role stereotypes. This is the basis for the current understanding of stereotypes in UML. Your invention a two-column, discursive form for use case specification was popularized by Larry Constantine. Many of the current " driven" ( driven ) design methods give RDD as the germ of their methodology. One of the techniques still in use today is the use of Class-Responsibility - Collaboration cards. Wirfs -Brock wrote to December 2009, a regular column on object design in the journal IEEE Software.

Wirfs -Brock has studied computer science and psychology at the University of Oregon and a BA completed. She worked 15 years as a software engineer at the company Tektronix, before joining the company Instantiations, which was founded by her husband, Allen Wirfs - Brock. This company was acquired by Digi, dis later the company in 1995 ParcPlace - Digital C. was added together with Parc Place Systems. There she was mainly working for a company that sold the Smalltalk applications.

She got together with Warren Dodge, U.S. Patent # 4,635,049 "Apparatus for Presenting Image Information for Display Graphically " granted.

Bibliography

• Designing Object-Oriented Software, Brian Wilkerson and Lauren Wiener, Prentice- Hall, 1990, ISBN 0-13-629825-7
• Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations, with Alan McKean. Addison -Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0-201-37943-0