Developing Component-Based Software: Arming Yourself for the Full Lifecycle

Although the UML and RUP have artifacts to represent components, their emphasis is on deployment and at best, implementation. They do not have full life-cycle support for analysis, architectural and detailed design needed to create componentware. In this tutorial we explore simple extensions to the RUP that have been applied to multiple project engagements and provide workproduct(artifact) and activity (workflow) that allow practitioners to perform subsystem analysis and variation-oriented analysis to support component-based development integration from the early stages of the life-cycle.