Analysis & Design: Workflow Details
The early Elaboration Phase focuses on creating an initial architecture for the system (Define a Candidate Architecture) to provide a starting point for the main analysis work. If the architecture already exists (either because it was produced in previous iterations, in previous projects, or is obtained from an application framework), the focus of the work changes to refining the architecture (Refine the Architecture) and analyzing behavior and creating an initial set of elements which provide the appropriate behavior (Analyze Behavior).
After the initial elements are identified, they are further refined. Design
Components and Design Real-Time Components
produce a set of components which provide the appropriate behavior to satisfy
the requirements on the system. In parallel with these activities, persistence
issues are handled in Design the Database. The result
is an initial set of components which are further refined in the Implementation
workflow.
