I think it is referring to the "Unified process" set of methodologies. Check out this link.
Small summary taken from link:
The Unified Process is an iterative and incremental development process. The Elaboration, Construction and Transition phases are divided into a series of timeboxed iterations. (The Inception phase may also be divided into iterations for a large project.) Each iteration results in an increment, which is a release of the system that contains added or improved functionality compared with the previous release.
EssUP ( Essential Unified Process ) [ Ivar Ivar Jacobson ]
AgileUP [ Scott W. Ambler ]
也许将来你会创建 IUP ，即 Ian Ringrose^上:-)
There is no mistake ... UP means Unified Process..
UP is a genaral process framework...It should be customized/make it to be more concrete before to use it...Think it as an abstract class in object oriented programming :-)
People takes this "abstract" process framework, make it more concrete and adapt it to their situtaion...As a convention you put some prefix on it to show that this is customized version of that process framework...Rational as firm create this abstract process framework and then make their own concrete framework from it, put their firm capital letter R on it...So we get RUP :-)...To make analogy think RUP (Rational Unified Process) as a concrete subclass of abstract UP class :-)
But in practice Unified Process [UP] itself is so abstract that unless you are so experienced process guy or you have curiosity about "processes" you not bother with it...Generally you bother with its concrete implementation RUP etc...In practice so UP and RUP mean same thing...but in theory they may not...
Here is some UP development methodologies:
RUP ( Rational UP )
EssUP ( Essential Unified Process ) [ Ivar Ivar Jacobson]
AgileUP [ Scott W. Ambler ]
And maybe in the future you will create IUP which is Ian Ringrose^s UP :-)
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我认为它指的是“统一流程”方法集。查看此链接。
来自链接的小摘要：
I think it is referring to the "Unified process" set of methodologies. Check out this link.
Small summary taken from link:
没有错误...
UP 表示统一流程。
UP是一个通用流程框架...在使用它之前应该对其进行定制/使其更加具体...将其视为一个抽象类在面向对象编程中:-)
人们采用这个“抽象”流程框架，使其更加具体并使其适应他们的情况...作为惯例，您在其上添加一些前缀以表明这是定制版本该流程框架...理性公司创建这个抽象流程框架，然后从中创建自己的具体框架，在上面加上他们公司的大写字母 R...所以我们得到了 RUP :-)...类比认为 RUP（Rational Unified Process）是抽象 UP 类的具体子类:-)
但在实践中，统一流程 [UP] 本身是如此抽象，除非您是经验丰富的流程人员或者您对“流程”有好奇心“你不关心它......通常你关心它的具体实现 RUP 等......在实践中，UP 和 RUP 意味着同样的事情......但理论上它们可能不是......
这里是一些 UP 开发方法论：
也许将来你会创建 IUP ，即 Ian Ringrose^上:-)
There is no mistake ...
UP means Unified Process..
UP is a genaral process framework...It should be customized/make it to be more concrete before to use it...Think it as an abstract class in object oriented programming :-)
People takes this "abstract" process framework, make it more concrete and adapt it to their situtaion...As a convention you put some prefix on it to show that this is customized version of that process framework...Rational as firm create this abstract process framework and then make their own concrete framework from it, put their firm capital letter R on it...So we get RUP :-)...To make analogy think RUP (Rational Unified Process) as a concrete subclass of abstract UP class :-)
But in practice Unified Process [UP] itself is so abstract that unless you are so experienced process guy or you have curiosity about "processes" you not bother with it...Generally you bother with its concrete implementation RUP etc...In practice so UP and RUP mean same thing...but in theory they may not...
Here is some UP development methodologies:
And maybe in the future you will create IUP which is Ian Ringrose^s UP :-)
可能是 Rational Unified Process (RUP) 的拼写错误？
Typo for Rational Unified Process (RUP) maybe?
我猜想 UP 意味着 RUP - Rational Unified Process。
I would guess UP means RUP - Rational Unified Process.
UP 是 RUP（Rational Unified Process）检查的通用方式
：
http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unified_Process
UP is a generic way of saying RUP (Rational Unified Process)
Check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Process
UP（统一过程）是 UML 的过程端伴侣。
UP, the Unified Process, is the process-side companion to UML.