Chapter 9. Writing Use-Case Descriptions: Revisited
By the time you are ready to write use-case descriptions, you will have completed the following tasks:
Identified actors and use cases
Created a use-case diagram showing the associations between actors and use cases
Written a short description of the role the actor or use case plays in the context of the system
Drafted a bulleted outline of the basic flow and identified the major alternatives for the significant use cases
Some, perhaps even many, use-case projects do not go beyond this point. If the flow of events is simple and team members agree on the required behavior of the system specified by the use case, it might be time to simply prototype and confirm the behavior and move on. But before you ...
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