Developing Applications with Java™ and UML

Describing Details of Pathways

The first goal of the project will be to further flesh out the detailed pathways for all the alternate and exception pathways in the use-cases. The use-cases referred to here are only those that will be implemented in the first increment. Remember from the previous chapter that pathway detail was already completed for each use-cases happy path (for all the increments). In that chapter, as an example we described in detail the happy path (Customer calls and orders a guitar and supplies, and pays with a credit card) for the use-case Process Orders.

Remember that the detailed pathway shows the tasks necessary to satisfy that course of the use-case. Now all the pathways for all the use-cases in Increment 1 need to be ...