The Road to the Unified Software Development Process

Provides an excellent overview of Ivar Jacobson??'s work on the Unified Software Development Process.

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.

Ivar Jacobson, together with Stefan Bylund, has gathered the best of his articles and updated them to reflect current trends in the industry. The book tracks the development of the new Unified Software Development Process and 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.