Writing Effective Use Cases

<p>Use cases have never been this easy to understand -- or this easy to create! In <i>Writing Effective Use Cases</i> Alistair Cockburn offers a hands-on soup-to-nuts guide to use case development based on the proven concepts he has refined through years of research development and seminar presentations. Cockburn begins by answering the most basic questions facing anyone interested in use cases: What does a use case look like? When do I write one? Next he introduces each key element of use cases: actors stakeholders design scope goal levels scenarios and more. <i>Writing Effective Use Cases</i> contains detailed guidelines formats and project standards for creating use cases -- as well as a detailed chapter on style containing specific do's and don'ts. Cockburn shows how use cases fit together with requirements gathering business processing reengineering and other key issues facing software professionals. The book includes practice exercises with solutions as well as a detailed appendix on how to use these techniques with UML. For all application developers object technology practitioners software system designers architects and analysts. </p>