The unified process for practitioners. Object oriented design, UML and Java (Q4485692)

Series Editor's Foreword: This is the twelfth volume in the rapidly expanding Springer Practitioner Series, and the third authored or co-authored by John Hunt, the others being Key Java (with A. McManus) and Java for Practitioners. As with all John Hunt's books, this book is written in a clear, concise, comprehensible style. The demands on software development continue to exceed satisfactory delivery. There are many expensive failed systems. On the other hand, our capability to develop software is improving, and this book addresses one of a family of approaches, namely the unified process, the unified modeling language and object-oriented design. Java is the examplar language used to illustrate the text, but the lessons to be learned are language-independent. Object-oriented anlaysis and design have been with us for some time, and have held out many promises of better reusable software. A variety of attempts at deriving a method of applying object-oriented analysis and design eventually culminated in the Unified Modeling Language (UML), which is a unifying notation that should act as a common vocabulary for all object-oriented design projects. The unified process is a design framework which guides the tasks, people and products of the design process using UML. Object-oriented analysis and design, UML and the Unified Process are rapidly gaining popularity and success in software development. The book guides the reader through object-oriented analysis and design; the intricacies of UML and the Unified Process; and in particular the iterative and incremental approach using use case analysis, the analysis workflow, the design workflow, implementation, the test workflow and the use of software patterns. Plan a little; specify, design and implement a little; integrate test and run; obtain feedback before the next iteration. The book also includes a case study to illustrate the material. The book is primarily aimed at practitioners wishing to learn how to go about using the Unified Process without extraneous academic material. However, it will also suit those many students who find engagement in academic discussion easier after they have understood the basics of the material.