Chapter 1. Welcome to the IBM Rational Unified Process and Certification

By Ahmad K. Shuja

This chapter is about RUP’s breadth and not its depth, so this introductory chapter will be mile wide and inch deep in terms of content. It introduces some of the core concepts that the RUP is founded on but does not go into detail about its different parts. It does, however, discuss the most important aspects of the RUP as they relate to software development. This chapter provides an overview of the book content.

An Overview of the Rational Unified Process

The IBM Rational Unified Process, also known as the RUP, is a process framework for successful iterative-incremental software development. In the software engineering domain, there are a number of development ...

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