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26-503: Rational Software originally developed the rational unified process as a software process product. The product includes a hyperlinked knowledge-base with sample artifacts and detailed descriptions for many different types of activities. RUP is included in the IBM Rational Method Composer (RMC) product which allows customization of the process. Philippe Kruchten , an experienced Rational technical representative

52-567: A project management discipline was introduced, as well as techniques to support real-time software development and updates to reflect UML 1.3. Besides, the first book to describe the process, The Unified Software Development Process ( ISBN   0-201-57169-2 ) by Ivar Jacobson , Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh ., was published in the same year. Between 2000 and 2003, a number of changes introduced guidance from ongoing Rational field experience with iterative development, in addition to tool support for enacting RUP instances and for customization of

78-483: A software development folder may be utilized. Eclipse process framework The Eclipse process framework (EPF) is an open source project that is managed by the Eclipse Foundation . It lies under the top-level Eclipse Technology Project , and has two goals: By using EPF Composer, engineers can create their own software development process by structuring it using a predefined schema. This schema

104-408: A software project are likely to be the same as its artifacts with the addition of the software itself. The sense of artifacts as byproducts is similar to the use of the term artifact in science to refer to something that arises from the process in hand rather than the issue itself, i.e., a result of interest that stems from the means rather than the end. To collect, organize and manage artifacts,

130-400: Is software documentation . In end-user development an artifact is either an application or a complex data object that is created by an end-user without the need to know a general programming language. Artifacts describe automated behavior or control sequences, such as database requests or grammar rules, or user-generated content . Artifacts vary in their maintainability. Maintainability

156-645: Is an evolution of the SPEM 1.1 OMG specification referred to as the unified method architecture (UMA). Major parts of UMA went into the adopted revision of SPEM, SPEM 2.0. EPF is aiming to fully support SPEM 2.0 in the near future. The UMA and SPEM schemata support the organization of large amounts of descriptions for development methods and processes. Such method content and processes do not have to be limited to software engineering, but can also cover other design and engineering disciplines, such as mechanical engineering, business transformation, and sales cycles. IBM supplies

182-460: Is established. To complement the business case, a basic use case model, project plan, initial risk assessment and project description (the core project requirements, constraints and key features) are generated. After these are completed, the project is checked against the following criteria: If the project does not pass this milestone, called the life cycle objective milestone, it either can be cancelled or repeated after being redesigned to better meet

208-510: Is primarily affected by the role the artifact fulfills. The role can be either practical or symbolic. In the earliest stages of software development, artifacts may be created by the design team to serve a symbolic role to show the project sponsor how serious the contractor is about meeting the project's needs. Symbolic artifacts often convey information poorly, but are impressive-looking. Symbolic enhance understanding. Generally speaking, Illuminated Scrolls are also considered unmaintainable due to

234-430: The executable is necessary to carrying out the testing plan. Without the executable to test, the testing plan artifact is limited to non-execution based testing. In non-execution based testing, the artifacts are the walkthroughs , inspections and correctness proofs . On the other hand, execution based testing requires at minimum two artifacts: a test suite and the executable. Artifact occasionally may refer to

260-434: The 52 question exam. The passing score is 62%. Six best software engineering practices are defined for software projects to minimize faults and increase productivity. These are: Artifact (software development) An artifact is one of many kinds of tangible by-products produced during the development of software. Some artifacts (e.g., use cases , class diagrams , requirements and design documents) help describe

286-694: The RUP framework. These changes included: IBM acquired Rational Software in February 2003. In 2006, IBM created a subset of RUP tailored for the delivery of Agile projects - released as an OpenSource method called OpenUP through the Eclipse web-site. RUP is based on a set of building blocks and content elements, describing what is to be produced, the necessary skills required and the step-by-step explanation describing how specific development goals are to be achieved. The main building blocks, or content elements, are

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312-417: The criteria. The primary objective is to mitigate the key risk items identified by analysis up to the end of this phase. The elaboration phase is where the project starts to take shape. In this phase the problem domain analysis is made and the architecture of the project gets its basic form. The outcome of the elaboration phase is: This phase must pass the lifecycle architecture milestone criteria answering

338-451: The diligence it requires to preserve the symbolic quality. For this reason, once Illuminated Scrolls are shown to the project sponsor and approved, they are replaced by artifacts which serve a practical role. Practical artifacts usually need to be maintained throughout the project lifecycle, and, as such, are generally highly maintainable. Artifacts are significant from a project management perspective as deliverables . The deliverables of

364-466: The end user. The activities of this phase include training the end users and maintainers and beta testing the system to validate it against the end users' expectations. The system also goes through an evaluation phase, any developer which is not producing the required work is replaced or removed. The product is also checked against the quality level set in the Inception phase. If all objectives are met,

390-423: The following questions: If the project cannot pass this milestone, there is still time for it to be canceled or redesigned. However, after leaving this phase, the project transitions into a high-risk operation where changes are much more difficult and detrimental when made. The key domain analysis for the elaboration is the system architecture. The primary objective is to build the software system. In this phase,

416-401: The following: Within each iteration, the tasks are categorized into nine disciplines: The RUP has determined a project life-cycle consisting of four phases. These phases allow the process to be presented at a high level in a similar way to how a 'waterfall'-styled project might be presented, although in essence the key to the process lies in the iterations of development that lie within all of

442-488: The function, architecture, and design of software. Other artifacts are concerned with the process of development itself—such as project plans, business cases, and risk assessments. The term artifact in connection with software development is largely associated with specific development methods or processes e.g., Unified Process . This usage of the term may have originated with those methods. Build tools often refer to source code compiled for testing as an artifact, because

468-436: The main focus is on the development of components and other features of the system. This is the phase when the bulk of the coding takes place. In larger projects, several construction iterations may be developed in an effort to divide the use cases into manageable segments to produce demonstrable prototypes. The primary objective is to 'transit' the system from development into production, making it available to and understood by

494-449: The newly released UML 0.8. To help make this growing knowledge base more accessible, Philippe Kruchten was tasked with the assembly of an explicit process framework for modern software engineering. This effort employed the HTML -based process delivery mechanism developed by Objectory. The resulting "Rational Unified Process" (RUP) completed a strategic tripod for Rational: This guidance

520-531: The phases. Also, each phase has one key objective and milestone at the end that denotes the objective being accomplished. The visualization of RUP phases and disciplines over time is referred to as the RUP hump chart. The primary objective is to scope the system adequately as a basis for validating initial costing and budgets. In this phase the business case which includes business context, success factors (expected revenue, market recognition, etc.), and financial forecast

546-441: The product release milestone is reached and the development cycle is finished. The IBM Rational Method Composer product is a tool for authoring, configuring, viewing, and publishing processes. See IBM Rational Method Composer and an open source version Eclipse process framework (EPF) project for more details. In January 2007 the new RUP certification examination for IBM Certified Solution Designer - Rational Unified Process 7.0

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572-415: The released code (in the case of a code library ) or released executable (in the case of a program) produced, but more commonly an artifact is the byproduct of software development rather than the product itself. Open source code libraries often contain a testing harness to allow contributors to ensure their changes do not cause regression bugs in the code library. Much of what are considered artifacts

598-541: The six best practices for modern software engineering: These best practices were tightly aligned with Rational's product line, and both drove the ongoing development of Rational's products, as well as being used by Rational's field teams to help customers improve the quality and predictability of their software development efforts. Additional techniques including performance testing, UI Design, data engineering were included, and an update to reflect changes in UML 1.1. In 1999,

624-738: Was augmented in subsequent versions with knowledge based on the experience of companies that Rational had acquired. In 1997, a requirements and test discipline were added to the approach, much of the additional material sourced from the Requirements College method developed by Dean Leffingwell et al. at Requisite, Inc., and the SQA Process method developed at SQA Inc., both companies having been acquired by Rational Software. In 1998 Rational Software added two new disciplines: These additions lead to an overarching set of principles that were defined by Rational and articulated within RUP as

650-403: Was released which replaces the previous version of the course called IBM Rational Certified Specialist - Rational Unified Process . The new examination will not only test knowledge related to the RUP content but also to the process structure elements. To pass the new RUP certification examination, a person must take IBM's Test 839: Rational Unified Process v7.0 . You are given 75 minutes to take

676-583: Was tasked with heading up the original RUP team. These initial versions combined the Rational Software organisation's extensive field experience building object-oriented systems (referred to by Rational field staff as the Rational Approach) with Objectory's guidance on practices such as use cases, and incorporated extensive content from Jim Rumbaugh's Object Modeling Technology (OMT) approach to modeling, Grady Booch's Booch method , and

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