Third Edition

This third edition of The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction makes the book current with the Rational Unified Process 2003. This edition implements several changes of terminology, some redesign of parts of the process (in particular, the test and environment disciplines), as well as the further development of RUP as a process framework. New elements are introduced ”the concept of process components and process plug-ins, a new tool set comprising RUP Modeler, RUP Organizer, RUP Builder, and MyRUP, and a separate Process Engineering Process. It incorporates the feedback of many readers and acknowledges the acquisition of Rational Software by IBM.