Artifact Overview

Artifacts are the things that are produced or used, etc during a project. An artifact can be any of the following: A document, such as Business Case or Software Architecture Document A model, such as the Use-Case Model or the Design Model A model element, i.e. an element within a model, such as a class, or a subsystem Models and model elements, have reports associated with them. A report extracts information about models and model elements from a tool. A report presents an artifact or a set of artifacts. Most artifacts have guidelines, which describes the artifact in more detail. Note that 'artifact' is the term used in the Rational Unified Process. Other processes use terms such as 'work product', 'work unit', etc., meaning the same thing.	Business Modeling	Requirements	Analysis & Design
	Implementation	Test	Deployment
	Project Management	Environment	Configuration & Change Management

Rational Unified Process 5.1 (build 43)