- Hardcover: 463 pages
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (Feb 14 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0201571692
- ISBN-13: 978-0201571691
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 19.3 x 3.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 930 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #829,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A software process defines the steps required to create software successfully. Written by the same authors who brought you the Unified Modeling Language (UML), The Unified Software Development Process introduces a new standard for creating today's software that will certainly be useful for any software developer or manager who is acquainted with UML.
Early sections introduce four basic principles of the unified process: that software should stress use cases (which show how it interacts with users), that the process is architecture-centric, and that it is iterative and incremental. The authors then apply these principles to their software process, which involves everything from gathering system requirements to analysis, design, implementation, and testing. The use-case examples are excellent and include concrete examples drawn from such areas as banking and inventory control.
The authors point out the connection between UML document types (like use cases, class diagrams, and state transition diagrams) with various models used throughout the software process. They provide very short, real-world examples that illustrate how their ideas have been successfully applied. The straightforward tour of the new unified software process gets extra elaboration--along with some advice--in later chapters that further describe the author's ideas on design. With the weight of these three expert authors behind it, readers can expect The Unified Software Development Process to be an important book and one that will be valuable to any working designer or manager. --Richard Dragan
Book Description
The Unified Software Development Process is a new software analysis and design process derived primarily from the three market leading OOA&D methods, Booch, OOSE (Use-Case), and OMT with ideas drawn from many other methods and input from many other parties. It is a component-based, use case driven, architecture centered, iterative and incremental developmental process that uses the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to represent models of the software system to be developed. The Unified Software Development Process book describes, apart from the unified generic process and the different activities in developing a software system, the different models developed and evolved during the lifecycle of a system. It describes in an easy-to-understand way the different higher-level constructs -- notation as well as semantics -- used in the models. Thus stereotypes such as use cases and actors, packages, classes, stereotypes, interfaces, active classes, processes and threads, nodes, and most relations will be described in tuitively in the context of a model. The Unified Software Development Process will go further then most OO A&D methods by describing a family of processes that incorporate the complete life-cycle of software development.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Non-habit forming sleep aid,
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This review is from: The Unified Software Development Process: The Complete Guide to (Hardcover)
I had to buy this book for coursework. Now, I can't imagine authors with more knowledge of UML, etc. than these three guys. However, every chapter reads like a student paper in which the main intention is filling up space for credit. Don't get me wrong here. I read programming books for fun. I'm not one of those people who doesn't enjoy reading technical material. They just managed to take an already dry subject and dry it further. As you read through there are various references to other books, articles, whatever. It seems as though no original material was written for this book. So, here's my advice. Read those books. Don't read this one unless you need to catch up on some sleep.
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent introduction book for software architect,
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This review is from: The Unified Software Development Process: The Complete Guide to (Hardcover)
If you want to be an archtiect or a lead programmer, read it and try to make sense of it. Otherwise, don't bother.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Repetitious and disorganized,
By etymologik (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Unified Software Development Process: The Complete Guide to (Hardcover)
Like many software developers with good ideas, the trio of Jacobson/Booch/Rumbaugh can't write to save their souls. There's good material in here if you can filter out the tedious repetitions, redundancies, and points of misplaced emphasis. The book completely fails to communicate the authors' important methodological insights. Sigh. I'm disappointed. But I'm keeping the book; it's good enough to stay in my library for a while.
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