RUP,the abbreviation of the Rational Unified Process . it is one of the popular software development methodologies, it includs initially , elebatoration , construction , delivery four phases.each phase can have a formal development literaion which includes risks assessment, requirement analysis, design ,development ,test case, delivery etc
RUP usually offers 4+1 views to describe software architecture:
usecase view:
logical view: logical view is concerned with the functionalist that system provides to the end users. UML used to present the logical view are the following:
a) classes diagram: a static structure diagram that describes structure of a system by showing system's classes ,operations ,attriutes and relationship among their classes
b)communication diagram; communication diagram ia an interative diagram that show communication among objects ,it can contain message direction
c) sequence diagram: sequence diagram ia an interative diagram that show objects interact in time orders,it emphasis the object sends message according time order
development view: the development view illustrates the a system from the programmer perspective ,
a)component diagram: despicting components wire together to form the big component
b)package diagram:despicting the dependency realtionship among packages.
process view:despicting a system behavior during the runtime ,it focuses on dynamic apsects ,emphasis concurrency, distribution ,scalability ,performance
a)activity diagram
deploy view: despitcting a system deployment from a physcial deployment.
a)deploy diagram