Book : The Unified Process Explained - Scott, Kendall

-Titulo Original : The Unified Process Explained

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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Concise, accessible, and practical guide meant to help significantly shorten the learning curve for practitioners unfamiliar with this methodology. Explains the essentials of the Unified Process, guiding you through the process step by step, showing you how you can put the methodology to work on your next project. Softcover. From the Back Cover The Rational Unified Process (RUP) has been widely adopted across the software industry. However, many software developers and managers--especially those working in medium-to-small development organizations--are hesitant to delve into this seemingly complex and time-consuming topic. The Unified Process Explained is a concise, accessible, and practical guide thats meant to help significantly shorten the learning curve for practitioners unfamiliar with this methodology. It explains the essentials of the Unified Process (the RUPs core elements), guides you through the process step-by-step, and shows how you can put the methodology to work on your next project. The book starts with a useful overview of the history, motivation, key concepts, and terminology of the Unified Process. The author then details the five pillars of development: requirements, analysis, design, implementation, and test workflows. In addition, the book enumerates the four phases of Unified Process development: inception, elaboration, construction, and transition; and it shows how the workflows are integrated into these phases. In laying out the details of this integration, the book illustrates the Unified Processs most useful feature--its iterative nature. With this book as your guide, you will gain an understanding of important concepts and activities such as: Iterations and increments Business and domain modeling Identifying actors and use cases Prototyping the user interface Robustness analysis Design and deployment models Statechart and activity diagrams Implementation models A large-scale example of an Internet bookstore runs throughout the book to illustrate concepts and techniques. The industry-standard Unified Modeling Language is used to express structure and function. The Unified Process Explained demystifies this valuable methodology and will lead you on your way to successfully applying the Rational Unified Process. 0201742047B11142001 About the Author Kendall Scott is a UML trainer and consultant. With more than sixteen years of experience as a technical writer, he is skilled in converting complex, technical material into understandable and easy-to-use manuals. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Why This Book? From the moment the Unified Process made its appearance, I heard many people describing it as really big and complicated, at conferences like UML World and in various public forums, such as Rationals Object Technology User Group (OTUG) mailing list. I agreed that in comparison to other well-known processes, it was rather large, but I didnt think that it was all that complicated, all things considered. In Chapter 2 of UML Explained, I managed to describe the fundamental concepts that underlie the Unified Process in about ten pages. While I was still writing that book, it occurred to me that I could probably describe the most important details of the Unified Process in a book not much bigger than that one (that is, 200 pages rather than my usual 150 or so). So, I set about writing this book partially to debunk the notion that the process contained just too much for the average person to get his or her arms around, and also to establish that the process doesnt specify tasks that people on a project dont do anyway, in one way or another. The result is a book that Ive specifically conceived as a companion piece to UML Explained. Rather than try to teach you about the UML, which the Unified Process makes fairly heavy use of, Ive included references to chapters and sections in that book tha