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

ORGANIZATION AND SPECIAL FEATURES

The book has two parts .

Part I describes the process, its context, its history, its structure, and its software development lifecycle. It describes some of the key features that differentiate the Rational Unified Process from other software development processes:

• Chapter 1: Software Development Best Practices

• Chapter 2: The Rational Unified Process

• Chapter 3: Static Structure: Process Description

• Chapter 4: Dynamic Structure: Iterative Development

• Chapter 5: An Architecture-centric Process

• Chapter 6: A Use-Case-Driven Process

Part II gives an overview of the various process components , or workflows. There is one chapter for each core process workflow.

• Chapter 7: The Project Management Workflow

• Chapter 8: The Business Modeling Workflow

• Chapter 9: The Requirements Workflow

• Chapter 10: The Analysis and Design Workflow

• Chapter 11: The Implementation Workflow

• Chapter 12: The Test Workflow

• Chapter 13: The Configuration and Change Management Workflow

• Chapter 14: The Environment Workflow

• Chapter 15: The Deployment Workflow

• Chapter 16: Typical Iteration Plans

• Chapter 17: Configuring and Implementing the Rational Unified Process

Most workflow chapters are organized into six sections:

• Purpose of the workflow

• Definitions and key concepts

• Workers and artifacts

• A typical workflow: an overview of the activities

• Tool support

• Summary

Two appendixes summarize all the workers (the roles of the process) and artifacts (the work products of the process) that are introduced in Chapters 7 through 15. A list of acronyms and glossary of common terms are provided, as is a short annotated bibliography.