{"id":1387,"date":"2015-03-11T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T12:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2015.itakeunconf.com\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2020-05-04T13:12:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T13:12:43","slug":"rebecca-wirfs-brock-object-oriented-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itakeunconf.com\/women-in-tech\/rebecca-wirfs-brock-object-oriented-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Object Oriented Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The week to celebrate women in IT goes on with the woman who defined the Object Oriented Design – Rebecca Wirfs-Brock. Let\u2019s bring upfront the stories of #famousITwomen who\u2019ve made breakthrough contributions along the history.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Object Oriented Design is about behaviors, not about entities and relations. We owe this idea to a woman: Rebecca Wirfs-Brock.<\/p>\n

[Updated based on Rebecca’s feedback]<\/em><\/p>\n

Early in her career, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock worked as a tester at Tektronix for graphics libraries. In those days, it was customary for testers to write just as much code as programmers in the form of automated tests. She decided to become a programmer because, despite the equally difficult work, testers were paid less than programmers. She became a principal engineer at Tektronix for Smalltalk, the language that inspired Java, Python and many others. This was a great opportunity for the industry, since she introduced the world to “Responsibility Driven Design”, the technique that influenced all modern design techniques such as TDD or BDD. Those of us who used UML owe her the idea of stereotypes. She now lives in Portland, and has been consulting enterprises on architecture and design for the past 30 years.<\/p>\n

We were fortunate to have Rebecca a keynote speaker at I T.A.K.E. Unconference. You can watch her keynote below.<\/p>\n