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Writing Effective Use Cases Alistair Cockburn
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Use cases have never been this easy to understand -- or this easy to create! Write Effective Use Case[stage note]. He early on describes a couple of ways to write use cases. Cockburn bridges the gap by stressing the need for written scenarii. I divide the energy of writing use cases into four stages of precision, according to the amount of energy required and the value of pausing after each stage: Actors & Goals. I began the journey of use cases through Alistair Cockburn book today and one thing hit me right away. Writing Effective UC Standard UML doesn't say much about use cases. Without having the proper understanding of use cases and the purpose of writing one, writing an effective case to elicit functional requirements can be pretty…useless. The Unified Modeling Language (UML1) defines an Actor (from UseCases) as: An actor specifies a role played by a user or any other system that interacts with the subject. {Alistair Cockburn\'s Writing Effective Use Cases is an approachable, informative, and very intelligent treatment of an essential topic of software design. Use cases have become a very popular requirements-gathering technique, yet many developers struggle when faced with writing them. Write good use cases to design and develop a stable system. For many, they are just diagrams.