Rebecca Parsons
Greater Atlanta Software Symposium
Atlanta · October 6 - 8, 2006
Vice President of Global Innovation - Thoughtworks
Dr. Rebecca Parsons is ThoughtWorks’ Chief Technology Officer. She has more years of application development experience than she cares to admit, in industries ranging from telecommunications to emergent internet services. She has extensive experience leading in the creation of large-scale distributed object applications and the integration of disparate systems.
Presentations
TDD/BDD and EAI: Unit Tests in a Middleware Tool
There are many well known tools and approaches in the Java and C# world for unit testing and Test Driven Development or Behaviour Driven Development. Extending these concepts in the EAI world is more of a challenge.
Enterprise Architecture and Agile: They Aren't Mutually Exclusive
Agile development is often talked about in terms of small teams of developers creating massive amounts of code. Such scenarios strike fear into the hearts of “Enterprise Architects”. This talk addresses the issues of how agile development and enterprise architecture can not only co-exist with but participate in an agile development effort.