Compare Essential Unified Process (EssUP) with Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Yue Hui, Yang Yan, Wang Quanyu, Chen Zhiwen

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Abstract

Essential Unified Process (EssUP) is a new software development process invented by Ivar Jacobson around 2006. It is based on Rational Unified Process (RUP) and takes Agile development philosophy into account. RUP was proposed by IBM Rational and now it is implemented as part of the IBM Rational tools. It is well known that EssUP is practice separation and lightweight and UP is an integrated and heavyweight process. In this paper, we introduce and characterize EssUP by systematically comparing it with traditional RUP from different aspects such as separation of concerns, flexibility, presentation, and tailorable. Comparison results show that EssUP is very flexible to be adopted, adapted, and configured. In other words, there is no actual process for EssUP and EssUP is just composed of a set of selected practices. Moreover, to successfully apply EssUP requires experiences and expertise. The contribution of the paper is that we provide readers a comprehensive and insight view of EssUP by thoroughly comparing it with commonly-used RUP.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2015 10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages472-476
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467373173
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Nov 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2015 - Auckland, New Zealand
Duration: 15 Jun 201517 Jun 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2015 10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2015

Conference

Conference10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2015
Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
CityAuckland
Period15/06/1517/06/15

Keywords

  • Essential Unified Process (EssUP)
  • IBM Rational Unified Process
  • Software Development Process

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