The Road to the Unified Software Development Process

by Ivar Jacobson, Stefan Bylund (Editor)

Overview

Ivar Jacobson is one of the most important figures in the software development industry. Together with his colleagues Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh, he has been pivotal to the creation of the Unified Modeling Language and Rational's Unified Software Development Process. In this book, Stefan Bylund has collected and revised Ivar Jacobson's articles from Object Magazine, JOOP, ROAD, and Component Strategies. It not only presents his most influential work, but also tracks the development of the Unified Software Development Process. An excellent reference for software professionals interested in analysis and design, the volume offers real-world experience in developing quality software through disciplined engineering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521787741
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/24/2000
Series:	SIGS Reference Library , #18
Edition description:	Revised and Updated Edition
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.87(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Prologue: 1. Building a complete solution; In Ivar's words; Part II. A Brief History: 2. A large commercial success story at Ericsson; 3. An ambitious goal: industrial development of software with an object-oriented technique; In Ivar's words; Part III. The Seeds of a Vision: 4. Time for a cease-fire in the methods war; 5. Yes, there is life after methods: the software development process; 6. Business process reengineering with object technology; 7. Building with components: toward mature object technology; 8. Succeeding with objects: reuse in reality; 9. It's time for an object modeling language standard; 10. Only software and doghouses are built without blueprints; In Ivar's words; Part IV. Process and Tools: 11. Beyond methods and CASE: the software engineering process with its integral support environment; 12. Reengineering your software engineering process; 13. Designing a software engineering process; 14. Designing an integrated software engineering process support environment; 15. Building your own process by specializing a process framework; In Ivar's words; Part V. Use-Case Engineering: 16. Basic use-case modeling; 17. Basic use-case modeling (continued); 18. Use cases and objects; 19. A confused world of OOA and OOD; 20. Use-case engineering: unlocking the power; 21. Formalizing use-case modeling; 22. A growing consensus on use cases; In Ivar's words; Part VI. Architecture and Large-Scale Systems: 23. Use cases in large-scale systems; 24. Systems of interconnected systems; 25. Extensions: a technique for evolving large systems; 26. Use cases and architecture; 27. Architecture is about everything: but not everything is about architecture; 28. The steps to an architecture; 29. Using interfaces and use cases to build pluggable architectures; In Ivar's words; Part VII. Epilogue: 30. Objectory is the unified process; 31. The unified process is iterative; In Ivar's words.

Editorial Reviews

'Overall, this book presents a fine introduction to and tutorial on the concepts and components of the Unified Process … the book provides a compelling argument for the methods it describes.' G. R. Mayforth, Computing Reviews

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