Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn

Writing Effective Use Cases



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Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Page: 249
ISBN: 0201702258, 9780201702255


I just read a recent blog (wiki) entry by Alistair Cockburn (of "writing effective use cases" fame) called "why I still use use cases". This holds true for While use cases can be written in text, the UML model emphasizes diagrammatic representation because they are “comparatively easy to understand intuitively, even without knowing the notation (Stevens & Pooley, page 93). The following section is a direct excerpt from “Writing Effective Use Cases” by Alistair Cockburn. As I am new to this, I'd like some recommendations on good BA, UML, use case, etc. Writing Effective Use Cases (Agile Software Development Series). An excellent and practical reference on writing use cases is "Writing Effective Use Cases," by Alistair Cockburn, part of the Agile Software Development Series, ISBN 0-201-70225-8. €�A use case captures a contract between stakeholders of a system about its behavior. (1998) Systems Engineering and Analysis, 3rd Ed. 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. Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering, USA. The most succinct definition I have found is Alistair Cockburn's (in Writing Effective Use Cases), in the reminders section rather than the main part of the book. Were these folks hoodwinked by use case zealots with an agile bent? 3.Getting It Right: Business Requirement Analysis Tools and Techniques. Hass, Don Wessels, and Kevin Brennan. Use cases have become an integral part of modeling software requirements, but many software developers are discovering that writing effective use cases is more difficult than they had anticipated. Images are an important component of an effective communication as you might have heard, “picture is worth a thousand words” implying that pictures do a good job of conveying complex ideas. In Writing Effective Use Cases, Alistair Cockburn illustrates a "hub-and-spoke" model of requirements.