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Summary: good for where the rubber meets the road
Review: I've been working on word templates for my project based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) web pages for my project. We will use these templates to create concept models, design models, code reviews, and inspections.While the RUP web page provides a great overview of a development process in the large, it lacks much of the details needed when the rubber meets the road. Exact templates for design documents and detailed step-by-step instructions are not provided. Such detail is not the purpose of the RUP pages. This is the primary reason that I am melding RUP and other standards to produce the templates listed above. I have found that "Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2000 and UML" by Terry Quatrani is an excellent guide for moving from the inception phase through the elaboration phase and into the implementation phase. The book is a step by step description of the details involved in using Rose 2000 (or 98i) to create use-cases, tie them into design, and move to implementation. I highly recommend using the Quantrani book as the guide to fill in the details not present in the RUP pages. This edition, while somewhat focused on a single example, is significantly better than the previous edition.
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Summary: Great book for UML design
Review: It is easy to say that it is light, or it is only introductory. Among our reviewers community we certainly have experts of all kind. But I think the purpose of the book is exactly that, to offer a clear and effective starting point for using UML notation and Rational Rose tool for software architecture design. If you are already a guru in software design and UML of course you don't need this one. It helped to me and it can help others, I am convinced on that. I recommend.
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Summary: I use it as a wrist rest next to my mouse
Review: Rational software ships this book free when you buy Rational Rose. Even then it is overpriced. If you don't know UML, this book may lead you astray. The author tells you how to draw things with Rational Rose, but not why you might want to draw them. Without a doubt, the worst UML book I've ever encountered. I feel sorry for the author; it seems that she (?) was probably tasked by Rational to write a user's manual for Rational rose, and someone at Rational thought they could make some more money by publishing it as a separate book. Unfortunately, it's insufficiently thorough to be a worthwhile user's manual.
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Summary: Bird-watcher's manual
Review: So you can distinguish a cardinal from a chicken? Can you fly? Terry describes the basic diagrams and syntax of UML with a very simple Course Enrolment example that serves to show what things look like. Not much more here.
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Summary: I use it as a wrist rest next to my mouse
Review: This book gives a worked example to using Rational Rose. It covers basics of UML, but not in detail. Overall, you should be able to appreciate the advantages of Visual modelling once you read this book. I would say this book is ideal for a person who has just learnt UML and OOAD concepts and is on the lookout for full fledged example of using those concepts. For just that, the book is over priced.
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Summary: Good Introduction to Rose, but Overpriced
Review: This book gives a worked example to using Rational Rose. It covers basics of UML, but not in detail. Overall, you should be able to appreciate the advantages of Visual modelling once you read this book. I would say this book is ideal for a person who has just learnt UML and OOAD concepts and is on the lookout for full fledged example of using those concepts. For just that, the book is over priced.
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Summary: Excellent for new Rose Users
Review: This book is extremely well-written and straight to the point. It's a nice and simple introduction to the world of UML using Rational Rose. The case study (ESU course registration) used in the book is simple enough for all the readers to understand. I finished reading the book within 3 days and started using Rose on my EJB project painlessly. I highly recommend this book for all new UML/Rose users. Thanks the author for "gave birth to Visual Modeling with Rational Rose and UML". Great "child"!
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Summary: Save your money
Review: This book is not worth the asking price. Quantrani has followed a style of writing where "less is more". However, there is so little content and the examples are so simplistic that as I was reading the book, I couldn't help but think that I've been had yet again on another poorly executed "training guide". I think you would be far better off buying another book or simply reading the tutorial material for Rose on Rational's site.
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Summary: it is about Visual Modelling and not about UML in details
Review: This book, just like the title says, is just about visual modelling with rational rose and doesn't explain the details whether about UML or OODA. Just about Visual Modelling.
I recommend this book for peoples who are looking for tutorial in Rational Rose, this will be the right one. But I don't recommend this book anybody, who is looking for UML or OODA books, because it is not the right book for that.
For a tutorial is this book probably too expensive ...
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Summary: Easy to grasp
Review: This is a very straightforward cookbook of Ratinal Rose. I use it whenever I need quick reference in developing my software. Terry has done a pretty well enough job of translating the technical elements into fairly direct English and should not be hard for beginners to grasp the concept of UML on Rational Rose. No wonder she's a Rose evangelist!
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