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The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, 2nd Edition
by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson
May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
12h 59m
English
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Chapter 17
Use Cases
No system exists in isolation. Every interesting system interacts with human or automated actors that use that system for some purpose, and those actors expect that system to behave in predictable ways. A use case specifies the behavior of a subject—a system or a part of a system—it describes sequences of actions, including variants, that a subject performs to yield an observable result of value to an actor.
You apply use cases to capture the intended behavior of the system you are developing, without having to specify how that behavior is implemented. Use cases provide a way for your developers ...
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