A Case Study on Tailoring Software Process for Characteristics Based on RUP

Nowadays, "resources overloading" is common when using standard processes, such as RUP (rational unified process) , to develop software. In order to improve its applicability and effectiveness, tailoring software process is very necessary. This paper presents how to tailor software process based on RUP appropriately for software characteristics. It has two parts to make the process be adaptable to software characteristics and project demands. One is constructing the expanding process by adding activities for software characteristics during four phases of RUP, the other one is tailoring the new process based on the relationship among activities, artifacts and roles with fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. And then an on-line book store system is built to verify this methodology.