Unified Software Development Process

Author: Jacobson
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This groundbreaking work thoroughly introduces the Unified Process for software development, with a focus on discussing how to use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for modeling from a practical perspective. The Unified Process goes beyond the scope of object-oriented analysis and design, clearly explaining a dynamic, architecture-centric, iterative, and incremental component-based process that supports the entire software development lifecycle. The Unified Process fully leverages the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as an industry standard. This book illustrates the newly applied process with UML models, demonstrating how the symbols and processes complement each other. The author clearly describes the semantics and syntax of the different levels of constructs used in the models. In the context of the model, constructs such as use cases, actors, subsystems, classes, interfaces, active classes, processes, threads, nodes, and most relationships are described. Object-oriented practitioners and software engineers familiar with the author's past work will view this book as an effective pathway to learning current best practices in software development. Written by the three founders of UML—Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch, and James Rumbaugh—this book provides a process guide for software development using UML as the modeling language. The content of the book is not an inherent part of UML, as UML is merely a modeling language and does not include process guidance. In fact, UML's independence from processes allows it to be used in different software development processes. However, the software development process introduced in this book is the one the three authors have been thinking about while developing UML, making it highly aligned with UML's characteristics. The book offers detailed guidance on how to apply UML concepts for software development, making it suitable for various personnel involved in software development, particularly for software project development team members to read.