Speakers

Rebecca Parsons

Vice President of Global Innovation - Thoughtworks

Dr. Rebecca Parsons serves ThoughtWorks as the vice president of global innovation with more than 20 years application development experience. Her industry experience ranges from Telecommunications to emergent Internet services. Rebecca has published in both programming languages and artificial intelligence publications and has served on numerous program committees. She reviews for many journals as well. She works as a technical lead in the creation of large-scale distributed object applications and the integration of disparate systems.

Presentations

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.

Issues such as roles, how architecture requirements can become stories and functional tests, and different models of assimilation are described.

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.

This talk briefly introduces both Test Driven and Behaviour Driven Development. We will spend most of the time talking about how to go about testing in an EAI world. Examples will be drawn from an actual project using Tibco Designer.