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Ivar Jacobson

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Ivar Jacobson
Born (1939-09-02) September 2, 1939 (age 84)
NationalitySwedish, American
Alma materChalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
Known forcomponents and component architecture, use-cases and use-case driven development, SDL, a major contributor to UML, Objectory, RUP, aspect-oriented software development, SEMAT, and Essence
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering
InstitutionsEricsson, Objective Systems, Rational Software, IBM, Ivar Jacobson International

Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson (born 1939) is a Swedish computer scientist and software engineer, known as a major contributor to UML, Objectory, Rational Unified Process (RUP), aspect-oriented software development, and Essence.

Biography

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Ivar Jacobson was born in Ystad, Sweden, on September 2, 1939. He received his Master of Electrical Engineering degree at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg in 1962. After his work at Ericsson, he formalized the language and method he had been working on in his PhD at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1985 on the thesis "Language Constructs for Large Real Time Systems".

After his master's degree, Jacobson joined Ericsson and worked in R&D on computerized switching systems AKE[1] and AXE. After his PhD thesis in April 1987, he started Objective Systems with Ericsson as a major customer. A majority stake of the company was acquired by Ericsson in 1991, and the company was renamed Objectory AB. Jacobson developed the software method Object-Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE) published 1992, which was a simplified version of the commercial software process Objectory (short for Object Factory).

In October, 1995, Ericsson divested Objectory to Rational Software,[2] and Jacobson started working with Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh, known collectively as the Three Amigos.

When IBM bought Rational in 2003, Jacobson decided to leave, after he stayed on until May 2004 as an executive technical consultant.

In mid-2003, Jacobson formed Ivar Jacobson International (IJI),[3] which operates across the world with offices in the UK, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Work

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Summary

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Dr. Ivar Jacobson is nicknamed “a Father in Software Engineering”, with his contributions spanning over 50 years starting from components and architecture in 1967 and still ongoing today with Essence, a common ground for engineering. In between he created Use Cases, and co-created UML and the Rational Unified Process. His influential software products include Objectory and the award-winning intelligent agent tool, Waypointer.

Ericsson

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In 1967 at Ericsson, Jacobson proposed the use of software components in the new generation of software controlled telephone switches Ericsson was developing. In doing this he invented sequence diagrams, and developed collaboration diagrams. He also used state transition diagrams to describe the message flows between components.[citation needed]

Jacobson saw a need for blueprints for software development. He was one of the original developers of the Specification and Design Language (SDL).[4] In 1976, SDL became a standard in the telecoms industry.[5]

In 1986, at Objectory, he also invented use cases as a way to specify functional software requirements.[6][7]

Rational Software

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At Rational, Jacobson and his friends, Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh, designed the Unified Modeling Language, and his Objectory Process evolved to become the Rational Unified Process under the leadership of Philippe Kruchten.[7]

Essential Unified Process

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In November 2005, Jacobson announced the Essential Unified Process or “EssUP” for short. EssUP was a new “Practice”-centric[clarification needed] software development process derived from established software development practices. It integrated practices sourced from three different process camps: the Unified Process camp, the agile software development camp, and the process improvement (primarily the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)) camp. Each one of them contributed different capabilities: structure, agility, and process improvement.

Ivar has described EssUP as a "super light and agile" RUP.[8] IJI[who?] have integrated EssUP into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Eclipse.

Essence Workbench

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Standing on the experience of EssUP Ivar and his team at IJI, has developed what today in its fourth generation is called Essence WorkBench™ starting in 2006. Essence WorkBench™ is a framework for working with methods. It is based on a kernel of universal elements always prevalent in software development endeavors. On top of the kernel more than 100 practices have been defined. A team can create their own method by composing practices.

SEMAT and Essence

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In November 2009, Jacobson, Bertrand Meyer, and Richard Soley ("the Troika") started an initiative called SEMAT (Software Engineering Method and Theory) to seek to develop a rigorous, theoretically basis for software engineering practice, and to promote its wide adoption by industry and academia. SEMAT has been inspired by the work at IJI, but with a fresh new start. Essence, an OMG standard since November 2014, is the end result.[9] Methods are seen by Essence as combining software engineering and development techniques. It seeks to make it possible to separate practices from methods, making it easier for them to be combined and reused to create methods that are best suited to the situation.[10]

Publications

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Jacobson has published numerous books and articles.[11] A selection:

  • 1992. Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach (ACM Press) With Magnus Christerson, Patrik Jonsson & Gunnar Overgaard. Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-54435-0
  • 1994. The Object Advantage: Business Process Reengineering With Object Technology (ACM Press). With M. Ericsson & A. Jacobson. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-42289-1
  • 1997. Software Reuse: Architecture, Process, and Organization for Business Success (ACM Press). With Martin Griss & Patrik Jonsson. Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-92476-5
  • 1999. The Unified Software Development Process. With Grady Booch & James Rumbaugh. Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999, ISBN 0-201-57169-2
  • 2004. The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual (2nd Edition). With Grady Booch & James Rumbaugh. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004, ISBN 0-321-24562-8
  • 2004. Aspect-Oriented Software Development With Use Cases (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series). With Pan-Wei Ng. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-26888-1
  • 2005. The Unified Modeling Language User Guide (2nd Edition). With Grady Booch & James Rumbaugh. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN 0-321-26797-4
  • 2013. The Essence of Software Engineering - Applying the SEMAT Kernel. With Pan-Wei Ng, Paul Mc Mahon, Ian Spence, and Svante Lidman. Addison-Wesley, 2013, ISBNISBN 978-0321885951
  • 2019. The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering - Free the Practices from the Method prisons. With Harold "Bud" Lawson, Pan-Wei Ng, Paul Mc Mahon, and Michael Goedicke. ACM Books & Morgan & Claypool publishers, 2019, ISBN 978-1-947487-24-6

References

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  1. ^ "The Ericsson story - Ericsson". 18 August 2016.
  2. ^ DBMS Interview - October 1996 Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Home". ivarjacobson.com.
  4. ^ Møller-Pedersen, Birger (2010-10-18). "Scandinavian Contributions to Object-Oriented Modeling Languages". History of Nordic Computing 3. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Vol. AICT-350. Springer. pp. 339–349. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23315-9_38. ISBN 978-3-642-23314-2.
  5. ^ Rockstrom, A.; Saracco, R. (1982). "SDL--CCITT Specification and Description Language". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 30 (6): 1310–1318. doi:10.1109/TCOM.1982.1095599. ISSN 0096-2244. S2CID 14451600.
  6. ^ Object-oriented development in an industrial environment | Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications. Oopsla '87. December 1987. pp. 183–191. doi:10.1145/38807.38824. ISBN 9780897912471. Retrieved 2020-08-10. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  7. ^ a b The unified software development process. Jacobson, Ivar., Booch, Grady., Rumbaugh, Jim. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley. 1999. pp. xx–xxvi. ISBN 0-201-57169-2. OCLC 636807532.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. ^ "Dr. Ivar Jacobson". Training. Ivar Jacobson International. 2024.
  9. ^ "About the Essence Specification Version 1.2". www.omg.org. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  10. ^ Ivar Jacobson International; Jacobson, Ivar; Lawson, Harold "Bud"; Ng, Pan-Wei; McMahon, Paul E.; Goedicke, Michael (2019). "Essentializing practices". The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering: Free the Practices from the Method Prisons!. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 31–81. doi:10.1145/3277669.3277694. ISBN 978-1-947487-27-7. S2CID 243575665.
  11. ^ Ivar Jacobson at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
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