The Road to the Unified Software Development Process by Ivar Jacobson (English)

Publisher Description

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.

Author Biography

Dr. Ivar Jacobson, Vice President of Business Engineering, is the inventor of the OOSE method, and he is also the founder of Objectory AB in Sweden, which recently merged with Rational Software Corporation. Dr. Jacobson is the principal author of two influential and best-selling books Object-Oriented Software Engineering--A Use Case Driven Approach (Computer Language Productivity award winner in 1992) and The Object Advantage--Business Process Reengineering with Object Technology. He has also authored several widely referenced papers on object technology. One of the most famous papers is his f

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.

Review

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

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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.

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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.

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