Overview: Concepts

The UPEDU provides basic and discipline-specific key concepts to describe the static aspect of the process. Some of the key concepts of the process, such as iterations, phases, risks, performance testing, and so on, are introduced in separate sections of the process, usually attached to the most appropriate discipline under the Concepts tab.

For more information on the basic key concepts of the process, see Key Concepts.

The following Concepts list is ordered following the Software Engineering Process Book Chapters.

Software Process and LifeCycle  

• Effect of Implementing a Process

Methods and Tools  

• Modeling Large Organizations
• Model Visually (UML) [See also: References: Best Practices]
• Supporting Tools

The Requirements Discipline  

• Requirements

The Analysis & Design Discipline  

• Analysis Mechanisms
• Implementation View
• Logical View
• Software Architecture
• Use-Case View

The Implementation Discipline  

• Mapping from Design to Code
• Software Integration
• Development and Integration Workspaces

The Test Discipline  

• Acceptance Testing
• Product Quality
• Stages of Test
• The Lifecycle of Testing

The Configuration and Change Management Discipline  

• Baselining
• Change Request Management
• Product Directory Structure
• Workspaces

The Project Management Discipline  

• Iteration
• Prototypes
• Risk

Process Assessement and Improvement  

• Process Quality

Software Process Measurement  

• Measuring Quality
• Metrics

A Process Engineering Metamodel  

• The Underlying Model of the RUP