1. The Unified/Rational Unified Process (UP/RUP) Defined

2. Capella University TS5130 System Development Theory and Practice
By Mark Lindquist
March 3rd, 2009

3. Main features of the UP/RUP?
Use Case Driven
Created for OO systems
Iterative and Incremental development
Inception, Elaboration, Construction, Transition, and Production phases
Can be customized to meet ones needs

4. Other features - Use cases establish requirements
Risks is considered early
Well defined, well structured phases
UML modeling in the inception, elaboration, and construction phases

5. Inception Phase-
Business requirements through the customer and use cases
System architecture is proposed.
An iterative and incremental plan is developed
Initial risk Assessment
Prototyping

6. Elaboration Phase - Use Case model Non-functional requirements
Analysis model
Preliminary Design model
Project architecture - use-case, analysis, design, implementation, and deployment models

7. Construction Phase - Analysis and design models are completed
Components are developed from the analysis and design models
All required features and functions become source code
Unit tests are designed and implemented
Integration testing is done

8. Transition Phase - End users beta test the software
Changes and defects are noted through user feedback
Support documents like manuals etc.
Software becomes a usable release

9. Production Phase - Ongoing Use of software is monitored
Support features are constructed
Possible for next iteration to have begun in the inception phase

10. References -
Pressman R.S. (2005). “Software Engineering. A practitioner’s approach” P. 62
Priestly M., Utt M. H. (2000) “A unified process for software and documentation development”
Retrieved Feb from ACM database, Capella University Library.
Krutchten P. (2000). “The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction, Second Edition, 2nd edition”