The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction (3rd Edition)

SUMMARY

• Building quality software in a repeatable and predictable fashion is hard.

• There are a number of symptoms of common software development problems, and these symptoms are the observable results of the root causes.

• Six commercial best practices strike at the root causes of these software development problems:

  • Develop software iteratively.

  • Manage requirements.

  • Use component-based architectures.

  • Visually model software.

  • Continuously verify software quality.

  • Control changes to software.

• The Rational Unified Process brings these best practices together in a form that is suitable for a wide range of projects and organizations.