Estudo comparativo entre a modelagem Extreme Programming e Rational Unified Process

Abstract

The Information Systems play a fundamental role among today’s organization. Due to this fact the demand increased to help the administration task and the operation of the enterprises. Therefore, challenges come up, in relation to the quality of the System itself, which should be delivered to the clients to achieve the software development process with quality and various forms of managing it where created. This work presents a comparative study between the software engineering process Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Extreme Programming (XP) under the system modelling point of view. In the study we intent to verify the real modelling time gain when the agile modeling method is used. The RUP consists of a different approach of the life cycle adequate to the UML. The RUP objective is to produce the most high quality software production and supply the final user with predictable planning and budget. The organization of XP was based in the Agile Manifest development software which among various aspects teaches the satisfaction of the clients through rapid and continuous delivery of the software products. It also prepares the developers to well receive the required changes even with the project on course. The work was structured in four chapters: Bibliography Revision (RUP and XP); Comparative Study Between RUP and XP (Comparison of life cycle, Comparison of phases of life cycle); Case Study (Example system, RUP use and XP use) and Conclusion.