The Road to the Unified Software Development Process

This book provides an excellent overview of Ivar Jacobson's work on the Unified Software Development Process.

Ivar Jacobson (Author), Stefan Bylund (Edited by)

9780521787741, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 July 2000

378 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 2.2 cm, 0.515 kg

'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

Ivar Jacobson, one of the Three Amigos of Rational, follows his fellow amigos, Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh, with the publication of The Road to the Unified Software Development Process, his own collection of the best of his work. Together with Stefan Bylund, Dr Jacobson has gathered the best of his articles from Object Magazine, JOOP, and ROAD, and updated them to reflect current trends in the industry. This book not only presents the best of his work, but it also tracks the development of the new Unified Software Development Process. This book is an excellent reference for software professionals who are interested in analysis and design. It provides real-world experience in developing quality software through disciplined engineering.

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.

Subject Areas: Software Engineering [UMZ], Object-oriented programming [OOP UMN]