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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
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Rebecca J. Wirfs-Brock 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.
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Wirfs-Brock holds a Bachelor of Arts in computer and information science and psychology from the University of Oregon. She was the Chief Technologist for the professional services organization of a Smalltalk language vendor. She holds a United States. Patent #4,635,049 "Apparatus for Presenting Image Information for Display Graphically" together with Warren Dodge.
Wirfs-Brock first coined the "-driven" meme in an OOPSLA 1989 paper she co-authored with Brian Wilkerson.
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 1992 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. 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 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Software until December 2009.
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